{"id":32649,"date":"2022-08-26T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/?p=32649"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:31:23","slug":"mdc-trustee-wins-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/mdc-trustee-wins-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"MDC Trustee Wins Seat On Miami-Dade County School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/mdc-trustee-vies-for-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Roberto Alonso<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who has served on the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/robert-alonso-appointed-to-miami-dade-colleges-board-of-trustees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the past two years<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was elected as the new Miami-Dade County School Board representative for District 4 on Aug. 23. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019d like to thank the community,\u201d Alonso said. \u201cI look forward to being a steward for our schools and being able to provide educational excellence to all our students.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He will represent Miami Lakes, Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens during the monthly-held school board meetings in Downtown Miami.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alonso, who ran on a platform centered on conservative values such as increasing parental rights in school curriculums and opposing Critical Race Theory, will help decide the county\u2019s school district policies. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI felt that it was time that we got back into it as parents and that we protected what was being taught to our students,\u201d Alonso said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His campaign also focused on improving security in schools, providing fair teacher salaries and securing more resources for students with special and mental health needs.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To garner support, Alonso and his volunteers knocked on thousands of doors and were engaged through his campaign\u2019s Instagram account: <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/robertoalonsofl\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@robertoalonsofl<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI learned a lot of what it means to work hard during this campaign,\u201d said Anthony Valenzuela, an Honors College alumn who managed Alonso\u2019s social media campaign. \u201cI\u2019m just so grateful for this opportunity.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following a four-month campaign, the hard work paid off. Alonso defeated Maribel Balbin and Kevin Menendez after obtaining 14,970 votes, tallying 57 percent of the support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alonso will begin his four-year term on Nov. 22. He replaces Macki Perla Tabares Hantman, who announced in April that she would not seek reelection after 26 years on the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 42-year-old entered the public service field in 2013, serving as the chair of the public safety committee at the town of Miami Lakes for three years. Since 2018, Alonso has served as a member of the Miami Association of Realtors and the Miami-Dade Planning Advisory Board.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1999, Alonso co-founded SchoolMint, a company that helps to automate administrative tasks in schools through software. He remained in the initiative for twenty years, serving his final four years as the company\u2019s director of business development.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is also a realtor at Costa Realtors Corporation and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">founder and vice president of business development at <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/alwaysatyourside.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Always At Your Side Adult Day Care<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In 2014, he founded Miami Lakes Car for a Cure, an initiative that supports and fundraises cancer research through car shows.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alonso earned an associate\u2019s degree in computer and information sciences and support services from MDC in 2002. Two years later, he obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with an emphasis on management information systems\u2014from Florida International University.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRoberto Alonso is the most genuine person you\u2019ll ever meet,\u201d Valenzuela said. \u201cHe not only cares about students, as we see at the College, but now he&#8217;s going to care about students in a much more prominent role.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Alonso, who has served on the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees for the past two years, was elected as the new Miami-Dade County School Board representative for District 4 on Aug. 23. \u201cI\u2019d like to thank the community,\u201d Alonso said. \u201cI look forward to being a steward for our schools and being able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13482574,"featured_media":32651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3337],"class_list":{"0":"post-32649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-miami-dade-county-school-board"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MDC Trustee Wins Seat On Miami-Dade County School Board<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Roberto Alonso, a member of the MDC Board of Trustees, became the newly elected school board representative for District 4.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/mdc-trustee-wins-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Trustee Wins Seat On Miami-Dade County School Board\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Roberto Alonso, a member of the MDC Board of Trustees, became the newly elected school board representative for District 4.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/mdc-trustee-wins-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-27T01:47:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-29T20:31:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Roberto-Alonso.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Juan S. 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