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In 2010 more than 63% of state voters approved the initiated Amendments 5 and 6 to the state constitution to ensure more fairness in districting These have become known as the Fair District Amendments As a result of the 2010 United States Census Florida gained two House of Representative seats in 2012 the legislature issued revised congressional districts in 2012 which were immediately challenged in court by supporters of the above amendments, Southeast Financial Center the tallest skyscraper built in the 1980s office boom, (14.6) 60.5 In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it. On July 27 2005 former Miami city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Herald's headquarters and phoned Herald columnist Jim DeFede (one of several telephone conversations that the two had had during the day) to say that he had a package for DeFede He then asked a security officer to tell his (Teele's) wife Stephanie that he loved her before pulling out a gun and committing suicide This happened the day the Miami New Times a weekly newspaper published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that he had had sex and used cocaine with a transsexual prostitute, 1 Names Miami is home to some of the nation's best high schools such as Design and Architecture High School ranked the nation's best magnet school MAST Academy Coral Reef High School ranked 20th-best public high school in the U.S. Miami Palmetto High School and the New World School of the Arts M-DCPS is also one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional bilingual education in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese, As of 2010 80% of people over age 25 were a High School graduate or higher 27.3% of people in Miami had a bachelor's degree or higher.

. The school district is currently being monitored by the Florida Department of Education due to having extremely low monetary reserves Since Carvalho's appointment reserves have increased from 0.5% to 1.3% of the operating budget; however this is well below the 5% recommended practice.[citation needed], 8 See also The Herald also co-sponsors spelling bees and athletic awards in South Florida.[citation needed]! 5.3 Tourism Gate Group's Latin American headquarters, During the 1970s Miami was a news leader due to the response to a Dade County ordinance protecting individuals on the basis of sexual orientation.[citation needed] Opposition to this ordinance which was repealed was led by Florida orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant. .