MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. / NBC6 — Fifteen staffers of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District have died from COVID-19 in the past 10 days, officials said.
Sonia Diaz, a spokesperson for several unions in the school district, confirmed the number of deaths to affiliate NBC6.
One of the educators that lost their life to COVID-19 was Abe Coleman, a teacher for more than 30 years.
Coleman was also a mentor and Site Director for the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Program, overseeing the Holmes Elementary location.
He helped shape the lives of hundreds of young men over the years in the organization that mentors minority men in Miami-Dade County.
He connected them with opportunity, with resources, with infrastructures of opportunity that fed into and contributed to their development,” Bright said.
Congresswoman Fredricka Wilson, the founder of 5000 Role Models, released a statement saying, in part:. »
