A pair of unrelated arrests over the weekend means students at two different South Florida public schools will have new principals Tuesday morning.
Darren Jones, principal at Hallandale High School, and Amanda Miles, principal of Coral Park Elementary, have both been reassigned after both were arrested in a 24-hour span.
Miles, 60, was arrested Friday after a police search of her Coral Spring home turned up 21 grams of marijuana in her bedroom. Her 18-year-old son Micheal was also arrested after police found 126 grams in his bedroom.
Then on Saturday, Jones, 42, surrendered to police on child abuse charges after police say he beat his teen daughter with an electrical cord.
Miles will be reassigned to the school district's grants office in Fort Lauderdale, and Jones will be reassigned, though it's unknown hwere, the Sun-Sentinel reports.
"Both [principals] are extremely well-liked by their faculties and communities," Broward Schools SUperintendent Jim Notter told the Sun-Sentinel.
Notter said crisis counselors will be on hand at both schools Tuesday after students were off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday.
