The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded St. Thomas University’s School of Nursing a $331,139 grant under its Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP). The grant is renewable each year.The NFLP awards grants to accredited schools of nursing to provide loans to nurse educators pursuing a graduate degree. The program’s goal is to increase the number of nursing faculty by...

Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) is saying goodbye to long-time teacher Joseph Walpole. He spent the last 16 years of his teaching career at MLEC, the longest he’d stayed at any one school.Anyone privileged enough to learn from Walpole could never forget him. Walking into his classroom was always special and whether he was discussing rhythm and meter, or the “art of styling sentences,” or love, loss and conflict in literature, the...

Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid was the guest speaker at the 2019 Dan Marino Foundation Campus graduation ceremony at Miami Lakes Educational Center. The program provides post-secondary education for young adults with autism and other development disabilities. Cid said he had the pleasure of meeting Haley Moss (pictured here), who’s the first openly autistic female attorney in the state of Florida. “She’s an incredible inspiration to all,” Cid said.

Recently the News and World Report ranked Jose Marti MAST (JMMAST) as the eighth best high school in Miami-Dade County among traditional and charter schools. The school has also been ranked 12th amongst all Florida high schools and 27th amongst magnet high schools across America and 98th nationally. There are still seats available for incoming seventh, eighth and ninth grade students. For more information or to apply visit: www.mast3.com.

JetStream Federal Credit Union once again partnered with the Center for Financial Training (CFT) and Miami Dade College (MDC) for the annual Future Bankers’ Camp Program.The program provides a hands-on experience for high school students interested in careers in the financial industry. It is a two-week educational track at MDC and a two-week internship at a financial institution.After successful completion of the program, the students receive...