FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 4, 2010

CONTACT: John Schuster
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
305-995-1126

School Board Vice Chair and Miami-Dade County Census 2010 Complete Count Committee Co-Chair Perla Tabares Hantman, Miami-Dade School Board members, Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho, District administrators, The English Center Principal Dulce DeVilla, students, teachers and interested citizens

2010 U.S. Census Kickoff

Friday, February 5
2:30 p.m.

The English Center
3501 S.W. 28th St,
Miami, FL 33133

The U.S. Census counts residents of the United States every 10 years.  The 2010 Census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for schools, job training centers, senior centers, public works projects and emergency services.  Additional data collected by the census helps determine the number of seats Florida has in the U.S. House of Representatives.  

The English Center, an example of Census money at work, was founded in 1962 as a special center of instruction for refugees arriving to the United States.  The school still focuses on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), but it has expanded its offerings to more than 50 adult, vocational, and community school programs.