Pay & keep great teachers
Competitive pay and real support so the best teachers stay in our classrooms — not leave for the next county.
Our Story
Raised in Carol City. Rooted in District 1.
Linda Cothiere grew up in Carol City and graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High — a home-grown daughter of District 1. A proud product of Miami-Dade public schools, she earned her associate degree at Miami Dade College and her bachelor's in education at St. Thomas University, then gave 35 years back to the community that raised her — building adult-education programs that move our neighbors into real careers.
She is a certified mediator. She is a Deaconess at Good News Church of North Miami — school-supply drives, food distributions, Thanksgiving turkeys, holiday toys. And for the past five years she has talked with South Florida every week, co-hosting The Reyni Talk Show on 1360 AM and reaching families across the region on Island TV.
At home, education is the family business: her husband, Wallace Aristide, served Miami-Dade schools for more than 30 years — over a decade of them as principal of Miami Northwestern Senior High.
30+ years of public-school experience in the family she's part of.
Mother of two — a parent first, on the parents' side.
Access in English, Kreyòl and Español for every family.
"Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught!"— Linda