After years on Miami’s school board culture-war frontlines, Báez-Geller runs for Congress

Lucia Báez-Geller isn’t afraid to make her opinion known. In her four years on the Miami-Dade School Board, she has sparred with her colleagues over whether to celebrate LGBTQ History Month, whether to explore the idea of having volunteer religious chaplains in schools and whether it made sense to offer classical education curriculum in Miami-Dade schools. It’s all helped her garner a reputation as arguably the most progressive member of the school board. Now, she’s hoping to draw on her experience on the board in a bid to flip Florida’s...