STATE OF FLORIDA

DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS

SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, )

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Petitioner, )

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vs. ) CASE NO. 89-7034

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LUIS GARCIA, )

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Respondent. )

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BETTY CASTOR, as Commissioner ) of Education, )

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Petitioner, )

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vs. ) CASE NO. 90-4720

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LUIS R. GARCIA, )

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Respondent. )

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RECOMMENDED ORDER

This matter was heard by William R. Dorsey, Jr., the Hearing Officer designated by the Division of Administrative Hearings, on July 13, 1990 and December 13, 1990, in Miami, Florida.

APPEARANCES

For the School Frank Harder, Esquire Board of Dade 2780 Galloway Road

County: Suite 100, Twin Oaks Building Miami, Florida 33165

For Betty Castor: Betty J. Steffens, Esquire

McFarlain, Sternstein, Wiley & Cassedy

600 First Florida Bank Building Post Office Box 2174 Tallahassee, Florida 32316

For Mr. Garcia: William DuFresne, Esquire

DuFresne & Bradley 2929 SW Third Avenue Suite One

Miami, Florida 33129

STATEMENT OF THE ISSUES

The issues in this consolidated case are whether Mr. Garcia's employment by the School Board of Dade County should be terminated for misconduct, and whether that same misconduct should cause the Commissioner of Education to revoke his teaching certificate.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

On December 6, 1989, the School Board of Dade County suspended Mr. Garcia's employment at a School Board meeting, and instructed staff to initiate dismissal proceedings against him for misconduct in office in violation of Rules 6B- 4.009(3), 6B-1.001 and 6B-1.006, Florida Administrative Code, for incompetency under Rule 6B-4.009(1), Florida Administrative Code, and gross insubordination under Rule 6B-4.009(4), Florida Administrative Code, as well as for violation of Sections 231.001, 231.02, 230.23(5), 230.33(7), 231.36 and 231.44, Florida

Statutes. The board alleged he made profane, abusive and obscene remarks to students, held them up to ridicule and embarrassment before classmates and threatened students with reprisal for cooperating in investigations of his conduct, that he was insubordinate by continuing to use indecent language, failing to follow proper procedures for dealing with student misconduct and making false and malicious statements about colleagues after being instructed to refrane from these acts, and demonstrated a lack of fitness to teach by his pattern of conduct. A timely request for an administrative hearing was received, and the final hearing began in Miami on July 13, 1990.

The Commissioner of Education filed an Administrative Complaint against Mr. Garcia on June 27, 1990, seeking to revoke, suspend or otherwise discipline his teaching certificate. The grounds for the Commissioner of Education's action were essentially the same as those alleged by the School Board of Dade County.

The request for formal hearing was referred to Division of Administrative Hearings on July 30, 1990. By order of August 17, 1990, and with the consent of all parties, the action by the Commissioner of Education was consolidated with the action filed by the School Board of Dade County. The hearing on July 13, 1990, did not complete the presentation of the school board's case because certain students who had been subpoenaed to testify did not appear.

Consequently, the school board had been granted additional time in which to seek to enforce the subpoenas, or to obtain the testimony of the students by deposition. Mr. Garcia had not presented his defense because the school board had not completed its prosecution.

The consolidated cases were ultimately set for the completion of the prosecution by both the school board and Commissioner of Education for December 13, 1990. Transcripts of both hearing have been filed. All parties have filed proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. The time for the Commissioner of Education to do so had been extended because, through error, counsel for the Department of Education had not been served with a copy of the transcript by the court reporter.

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. At all times material to this proceeding Mr. Garcia has held Florida teaching certificate number 553087 in the areas of science and biology; the certificate is valid through June 30, 1995.

   
   

2. Mr. Garcia was employed by the School Board of Dade County at Hialeah High School for the period September 1984 until September 1989.

3. Mr. Garcia taught biology during the seventh period during the 1988-89 school year. He also taught marine biology during the third period that same school year. All of the acts which form the basis for the attempt to discipline Mr. Garcia arose from the seventh period biology class. No complaints arose from the third period marine biology class.

   
   

4. During the seventh period biology class during the 1988-89 school year the Respondent commonly used inappropriate language in dealing with the students in his class of 30-35 students. He told students such things as "shut the hell up" and peppered his conversations with students with words such as "bitch," "asshole," "shit" and "smart ass." Mr. Garcia is Hispanic, and most of his class was Hispanic. At times he would ask his students what was going on in a rude way, saying "que cajones pasa aqui" which is an inappropriate or vulgar reference to testicles. He would also say things such as "what the fuck is wrong here" or respond to students with phrases such as "fuck you."

   
   

5. The manner in which the seventh period class was conducted was academically inconsistent. Mr. Garcia was not in the habit of lecturing as a means of teaching, but would assign vocabulary words from the book, which the students were to define in their workbooks, during the class period; when they were finished they would take the books to Mr. Garcia who would check their work. Sometimes he would tell the students to lay their heads on the desk and listen to the rain, or to put their heads on their desk, close their eyes, and think about space. At other times, he would permit students to merely socialize with each other or tell jokes with the students.

   
   

6. Two significant incidents took place during the seventh period biology class in the 1988-89 school year.

   
   

7. The first of these occurred in the spring of the year. The students saw a commotion outside their classroom window, and several students got up to look out the classroom windows. The students and Mr. Garcia could see a man outside who had a gun. Mr. Garcia then told one of the students to report the matter to the office and he told the students to sit down. Three students, Mireya Sales, Joana Quinones and Mercedes Blason, did not. Thereafter three policemen and a policedog were seen outside looking for the man with a gun. At that time Mr. Garcia told the students to "get the hell down" and when they did not, in order to emphasize to them the need to get away from the window, he told them to "get the fuck down." This caused all the students to get back to their seats away from the window. Were this the only incident of profanity, it might have been justified by the exigencies of the situation. The language used was, however, a common means of expression used by Mr. Garcia in his classroom.

   
   

8. The second, and more significant event occurred towards the end of the year. One of Mr. Garcia's students, Mireya Sales, was ill, and began coughing or perhaps choking in class. Mireya Sales is a good student, having obtained a

   3.4 grade point average for the second term of the 1988-89 school year. She asked if she could go into the hall to get some water, and Mr. Garcia gave his permission. When she came back, however, he said to her "you are a little tramp." She asked him what he had said, and he repeated "you are a little tramp" and began laughing; students in the class also began to laugh. A few minutes later he went up to Mireya Sales at her desk and said "yes you are a little tramp, and I know the way you operate." Mireya Sales then told him she would call her father to tell her father what Mr. Garcia had said, to which he responded "you could call your dad, because I am not intimidated by your dad. Your dad does not scare me. So you could call your dad, it does not matter."

   When Mireya Sales asked for a pass to go to the office, Mr. Garcia refused, and she was so embarrassed that she left the class crying. She did not, however, go to the school office.

   
   

9. The next day, Mr. Garcia came to Mireya Sales' first period class and asked the teacher to permit Mireya Sales to come out into the hall and talk to Mr. Garcia. That teacher agreed. When she went outside, she found that Mr. Garcia had with him her school folder, apparently from the office. Mr. Garcia told the student "most of your teachers have complained that you have an attitude problem." He then told her "give me your phone number and address.

   I'm going to go and talk to your dad. I'm going to tell him what kind of person you are." She then gave him the telephone number and address and he said "I am going to make sure you get what you deserve" and told her that she had better keep quiet or he would see to it that she would have to attend summer school if she reported the incident from the previous day to the office. Mireya Sales then returned to her first period class.

   
   

10. Mireya Sales reported the matter to her French teacher, who told her that she should talk to her guidance counselor. She then spoke to the guidance counselor, Ms. Cash, but while she was speaking with Ms. Cash, Mr. Garcia came into the office to say that it was good Ms. Cash was speaking with Mireya Sales, because Mr. Garcia had a problem with Mireya Sales. Mr. Garcia also had Mireya Sales' file and gave it to Ms. Cash. Ms. Cash and Mireya Sales then look through it, and found no reference anywhere to any other teacher claiming that Mireya Sales had an attitude problem. The counselor then asked her to report the matter to an assistant principal, Mr. Jaworski. She did.

    
    

11. While Mireya Sales was speaking with Mr. Jaworski, Mr. Garcia came into Mr. Jaworski's office. Mr. Garcia told Mr. Jaworski that he had made a disciplinary referral on Mireya Sales, and had put it on the desk of the other assistant principal, Dr. De La Torre. Later, Mr. Garcia returned while Mireya Sales was still with Mr. Jaworski to say that if Mireya Sales would come back into his class for the next week and be good, that he would not write up a referral, although he had already told Mr. Jaworski that he had written one and given it to the other assistant principal.

    
    

12. Mireya Sales father asked that she be removed from Mr. Garcia's class. She was not removed, and when she would hand papers into Mr. Garcia thereafter, he would write notes on Mireya Sales' papers saying such things as "I hope you know what you are doing" or "I hope you have a clear conscience."

    
    

13. Mr. Garcia also confronted other students to attempt to intimidate them so that they would not report the incident in which he had called Mireya Sales "a tramp" to the office. The next day, during third period, he asked the teacher of Mercedes Blason if he could speak to her briefly in the hall outside, and the teacher agreed. Outside the third period classroom, Mr. Garcia had with him a folder and said to Mercedes Blason "I know what is going around, and if you know what is good for you won't get mixed up in it." He also had with him a referral form on which he had written Mireya Sales' name. Mr. Garcia was attempting to tell Mercedes Blason that he would make a disciplinary referral against her to the administration if he believed that she reported to the principal or assistant principal the incident in which he had called Mireya Sales a little tramp.

    
    

14. Two or three days following the incident with Mireya Sales, Mr. Garcia saw Silvia Licor as she was moving between classes. She also had been in the seventh period class the day of the incident with Mireya Sales. Mr. Garcia told

    her that a lot of people are getting involved in going to the office, and not to waste her time because he had a lot of friends in the faculty and on the school board, and that if Silvia Licor went to the office, he would give her a referral. Silvia Licor's mother learned of the incident and wrote a letter to the school complaining about Mr. Garcia.

    
    

15. A similar incident occurred with student Joana Quinones. She had gone to a Vice Principal, Mr. Rolle, to complain about Mr. Garcia. About five minutes into her next class, Mr. Garcia came to the class, and asked the teacher to speak to Ms. Quinones outside. She went out to speak with him and he told her "you see this referral? This is going to go in Mr. Wargo's [the principal] office." Joana Quinones told him to go ahead and went back into class. Joana Quinones was upset because Mr. Garcia was following her as she went to the office and knew to speak to her about having gone to the office so soon after she had done so. While she was changing classes, Mr. Garcia again confronted her and began saying to her in a loud voice "You are something young lady....

    You're mother needs to get soap and wash your mouth out." This exposed her to embarrassment in front of other students.

    
    

16. The school administration received letters in May, 1989 from the father of Silvia Licor, the mother of Joana Quinones and from Mr. Sales complaining about Mr. Garcia. These letters reflect, in general, an awareness in the community of Mr. Garcia's conduct, and such dissatisfaction with Mr. Garcia that Mr. Garcia had lost his effectiveness as a teacher within the community.

    
    

17. A disciplinary conference for the record was held with Mr. Garcia and Mr. Wargo on June 12, 1990, to discuss the parent complaints. During that conference Mr. Garcia was directed by Mr. Wargo that any complaints he had about discriminatory treatment were to be made directly to Mr. Wargo, that there was to be no recrimination made against any student who made a complaint to the administration about him, and that Mr. Garcia was to refrain from the use of abusive and threatening language to students both in and out of class. Mr. Wargo also asked the Board's Special Investigative Unit to investigate the accusations of use of inappropriate language in class.

    
    

18. For the school year ending in June of 1989 Mr. Garcia received an unacceptable evaluation under the Dade County Teacher Assessment and Development System. His teaching was found acceptable during the 1988-89 school year in categories I-VI, which are preparation and planning, knowledge of subject matter, classroom management, techniques of instruction, student-teacher relationships, and assessment techniques. His teaching was found unacceptable in the area covered by category VII, professional responsibility. The deficiencies were that

    
    

    1. The teacher's comments to students include sarcasm, ridicule and profanity; and

    2. The teacher did not follow proper procedures in handling and referring students to the office; and

    3. The teacher used inappropriate behavior in dealing with students, teachers and administrators.

       
       

19. The unacceptable evaluation was actually the second evaluation completed for Mr. Garcia covering the 1988-89 school year. The first evaluation was done after Mr. Wargo, the principal, observed Mr. Garcia teaching during a

    class period on March 16, 1989. An evaluation finding him acceptable was signed by the principal on May 19, 1989. It did include a remark that "attitudes and perceptions on part of students need to be considered." That evaluation was replaced, however, with the new evaluation described in Finding 18 on September 25, 1989. Mr. Wargo prepared it after he had received the report of the findings of the school board's Special Investigative Unit, which he had asked to investigate the complaints about Mr. Garcia's use of inappropriate language during the 1988-89 school year. A prescription for remediation of Mr. Garcia's deficiencies was prepared at about the same time.

    
    

20. Part of the prescription prepared for Mr. Garcia required Mr. Garcia to read pages 263-280 of the Teacher Assessment and Development System Manual, and to discuss with assistant principal De La Torre ways of providing positive feedback to students. This discussion was to be held by October 22, 1989. Dr. De La Torre had a conference with Mr. Garcia on October 25th to discuss the prescription. The time frames for some of the other activities in the prescription extended through the end of the 1989-90 school year. Mr. Garcia wanted Dr. De La Torre to shorten some of the prescription timeliness because he wished to transfer to another school, but he could not do so if he was still on prescription at Hialeah High School. During their conference, Dr. De La Torre mentioned that during the previous year, Mireya Sales had complained that Mr. Garcia had used the Spanish word for testicles in class. During that October 25, 1989 conference Mr. Garcia somehow turned that fact around, and accused Dr. De La Torre of insulting him by using the word for testicles. Mr. Garcia became highly agitated in his conference with Dr. De La Torre and accused her of not liking Hispanic men. He left, and when he came back told Dr. De La Torre "I don't like the way you treat me."

    
    

21. Dr. De La Torre made a memorandum of her conference with Mr. Garcia the next day, October 26, and sent it to the Principal, Mr. Wargo. Mr. Wargo then held a conference with Dr. De La Torre and Mr. Garcia to discuss the accusation which Mr. Garcia had made against Dr. De La Torre of discriminating against Latin males. This was a direct contravention of the instructions given to Mr. Garcia during the June 12, 1989, conference for the record, that any complaints of discrimination which he felt he suffered were to be brought directly to the attention of Mr. Wargo. It constitutes insubordination.

    
    

22. Mr. Garcia's conversations with Dr. De La Torre and Mr. Wargo show that he can become extremely agitated or hostile very quickly when confronted with questions about his conduct.

    
    

23. The expert testimony of Dr. Gray has established that it is professionally inappropriate for a teacher to interrupt classes of another teacher in order to speak with a student outside, and Mr. Garcia's actions in doing this were counterproductive for students, who had their learning experiences interrupted. It is also inappropriate to pull students from another class as a means of handling student discipline. It is professionally inappropriate for a teacher to use profane or vulgar language when dealing with students in a classroom setting and especially inappropriate to embarrass students, such as calling Mireya Sales a little tramp, or confronting Joana Quinones in the hall while other students are changing classes, and loudly questioning the manner in which her parents have brought her up. It is certainly inappropriate for a teacher to threaten students with reprisals for cooperating with an investigation of a teacher's conduct. The testimony of the students, and the letters from parents establish that Mr. Garcia has, through his conduct, lost the confidence of students and parents and that his

    effectiveness as a teacher has been lost. There is no persuasive expert testimony showing that Mr. Garcia is incompetent, however.

    
    

24. There is no evidence that Mr. Garcia persisted in using profane or other inappropriate language in his classes during the 1989-90 school year, after he was specifically warned against doing so in the June 12, 1989 conference for the record and in the re-evaluation of his teaching performance for the 1988-89 school year in the second TADS evaluation prepared in September 1989. See, Finding 18.

    
    

    CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

    
    

25. The Division of Administrative Hearings has jurisdiction over this matter. Section 120.57(1), Florida Statutes.

    
    

26. The School Board of Dade County has proven that Mr. Garcia is guilty of misconduct in office under Rule 6B-4.009(3), Florida Administrative Code, because he has violated Rule 6B-1.006(3)(a) and (3)(e), Florida Administrative Code, which respectively oblige teachers to make reasonable effort to protect the student from conditions harmful to learning, health or safety, and not to intentionally expose a student to unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement. Removing students from classes and threatening them with educational reprisals for complaining to the administration and causing students to cry or be embarrassed in the classroom or in the halls violate these principles of professional conduct. The repeated and pervasive use of profanity during seventh period biology class during the 1988-89 school year, similarly violates these professional principles.

    
    

27. Rule 6B-4.009(4), Florida Administrative Code, forbids "gross insubordination or willful neglect of duty," which is a constant or continuing intentional refusal to obey a direct order, reasonable in nature, given by and with proper authority. Although Mr. Garcia repeatedly used profanity in his classroom, and repeatedly exposed students to conditions harmful to learning or unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement, those actions do not violate Rule 6B-4.009(4), Florida Administrative Code, because they never occurred after a specific instruction to avoid such conduct. On the other hand, Mr. Wargo had specifically required Mr. Garcia to bring to the attention of Mr. Wargo alone any instances in which Mr. Garcia believed he was being discriminated against. Mr. Garcia twisted the recounting of the events in 1989, in which he had used the term "cajones" in class, into an accusation that Dr. De La Torre used the term in an insulting or disparaging way during their October 25, 1989, conference on Mr. Garcia's progress towards meeting the prescription to improve his teaching. He then accused Dr. De La Torre of prejudice against Hispanic males. This was a specific violation of the reasonable, direct order from Mr. Wargo given during the June 12, 1989 conference for the record, and constitutes gross insubordination under Rule 6B-4.009(3), Florida Administrative Code. These actions constitute just cause for the termination of Mr. Garcia's employment; Section 231.36(1)(a), (4)(c), Florida Statutes; and for revocation of his teaching certificate. 231.28(1)(h), Florida Statutes.

    
    

28. It is also reasonable to characterize Mr. Garcia's repeated use of profanity in his classroom as gross immorality under Section 231.28(1)(c), Florida Statutes and Rule 6B-4.009(2), Florida Administrative Code. The conduct is inconsistent with standards of public conscience and good morals, and was sufficiently notorious to bring Mr. Garcia into public disrespect and impaired his effectiveness as a teacher.

29. The conduct of Mr. Garcia during the 1988-89 school year, which resulted in the loss of respect for him by students in his class, and their parents, has diminished his effectiveness as an employee of the school board sufficiently to constitute a violation of Section 231.28(1)(f), Florida Statutes.

RECOMMENDATION

Based upon the foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, it is RECOMMENDED that a Final Order be entered by the School Board of Dade

County finding Mr. Garcia guilty of misconduct in office, immorality and gross insubordination and sustaining his dismissal from employment with the School Board of Dade County, and that the Education Practices Commission enter a Final Order with respect to Mr. Garcia's teaching certificate, imposing the penalty of a revocation of his teaching certificate, that he not be permitted to reapply for a teaching certificate for a period of ten years, and that before he may re- qualify to receive a certificate, he must complete appropriate university level instruction in classroom management and a separate class in stress control. Any recertification of Mr. Garcia following the period of revocation should be accompanied by a period of probation for monitoring of Mr. Garcia's performance in the classroom following recertification.

DONE and ENTERED this 28th day of February, 1991, at Tallahassee, Florida.

WILLIAM R. DORSEY, JR.

Hearing Officer

Division of Administrative Hearings The DeSoto Building

1230 Apalachee Parkway

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1550

(904) 488-9675

Filed with the Clerk of the Division of Administrative Hearings this 28th day of February, 1991.

APPENDIX TO RECOMMENDED ORDER

Rulings on findings proposed by the school board:

1. Rejected as unnecessary.

2. Generally adopted in Findings 8 and 9.

3. Generally adopted in Finding 9.

4. Rejected as subordinate to Finding 4.

5. Rejected as subordinate to Findings 4 and 5, although the persuasive evidence deals with seventh period, not second period.

6. Rejected as subordinate to Findings 7 and 8, although the final two sentences are generally adopted in Finding 14.

7. Implicit in Finding 5.

8. Generally subordinate to Finding 4, although the incident at the windows is discussed in Finding 7.

9. Discussed in Finding 15, to the extent necessary.

10. Subordinate to Finding 5.

11. Generally adopted in Finding 20. The final sentence is discussed in Finding 11.

12. Rejected as unnecessary.

13. With respect to Silvia Licor, discussed in Finding 14, with respect to Mercedes Blason, discussed in Finding 13.

14. Subordinate to Finding 22.

15. Rejected as unnecessary, the more convincing evidence has to do with the seventh period.

16. Discussed in Finding 23.

Rulings on Findings proposed by the Commissioner of Education:

1. Adopted in Finding 1.

2. Adopted in Finding 2.

3. Generally adopted in Finding 4.

4. Generally adopted in Finding 4.

5. Generally adopted in Finding 4.

6. Generally adopted in Finding 7.

7. Generally adopted in Finding 7.

8. Generally adopted in Findings 4 and 7.

9. Adopted in Finding 8.

10. Adopted in Finding 9.

11. Adopted in Findings 8 and 13.

12. Adopted in Findings 8 and 14.

13. Generally accepted in Findings 3 and 5.

14. Rejected as unnecessary.

15. Generally rejected. The inconsistency in academic approach would more properly be categorized as an incompetence, but insufficient evidence was presented to show that Mr. Garcia is incompetent. Evidence of diminished effectiveness arises from misconduct more than from inconsistency in teaching.

16. The evidence in respect to problems with Mr. Jaworski was some what superficial, and is insufficient to make a finding upon. In view of the other persuasive evidence, it is also cumulative or unnecessary. The incident with Dr. De La Torre is discussed in Findings 20 and 21.

17. Discussed in Finding 20.

18. Subordinate to Finding 17.

19. Subordinate to Finding 17.

20. Discussed in Finding 17.

21. Discussed in Finding 8. Mr. Garcia's explanation for his conversation with Ms. Sales the following day has been rejected. See, Finding 9.

22. Discussed in Finding 7.

23. Adopted in Finding 23.

24. Rejected as unnecessary.

25. Discussed in Finding 4.

26. See, Finding 4.

27. Rejected as unnecessary.

28. Rejected as unnecessary.

29. Rejected as unnecessary.

30. Rejected as unnecessary.

31. Generally rejected. See, Finding 4.

32. Rejected as unnecessary. See, Findings 4 and 23.

33. Adopted in Finding 4.

34. Generally accepted in Finding 23. See, Finding 7.

35. Adopted in Findings 9, 14, 15 and 16.

36. Generally accepted in Finding 8.

Rulings on findings proposed by Mr. Garcia:

1. Adopted in Findings 1 and 2.

2 - 4. Discussed in Finding 7.

1. Rejected as subordinate.

2. Rejected as unpersuasive., because many of the students were not in the same class. The testimony of the students concerning inappropriate language was persuasive.

3. Rejected as inconsistent with the Hearing Officer's view of the evidence.

4. Adopted in Findings 17, 18 and 19.

5. With respect to inappropriate language, see, Finding 24. The remainder is rejected.

6. Rejected. See, Finding 21.

7. Rejected. See, Findings 17, 18 and 19.

COPIES FURNISHED:

Frank R. Harder, Esquire

2780 Galloway Road, Suite 100 Twin Oaks Building

Miami, Florida 33165

William DuFresne, Esquire DuFresne and Bradley

2929 Southwest Third Avenue Suite One

Miami, Florida 33129

Betty J. Steffens, Esquire McFarlain, Sternstein, Wiley

& Cassedy, P.A.

600 First Florida Bank Building Post Office Box 2174 Tallahassee, Florida 32316-2174

George A. Bowen, Acting Executive Director Department of Education

301 Florida Education Center

325 West Gaines Street Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400

Jerry Moore, Administrator Department of Education Professional Practices Services

352 Florida Education Center

325 West Gaines Street Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400

Sydney H. McKenzie, General Counsel Department of Education

The Capitol, PL-08

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400

Honorable Betty Castor Commissioner of Education Department of Education The Capitol

Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400

Superintendent of Schools Dade County School Board 1450 Northeast 2nd Avenue Miami, Florida 33132

Madelyn Schere, Esquire Dade County School Board 1450 Northeast 2nd Avenue Miami, Florida 33132

NOTICE OF RIGHT TO SUBMIT EXCEPTIONS

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Docket for Case No: 89-007034

Orders for Case No: 89-007034