Lesley Varas-Caraballo has been honored as Spanish Lake Elementary’s Teacher of the Year and a selected District finalist. Teaching is embedded into her DNA, as her grandmother in Cuba, her mother, sister and brother are in education. Varas-Caraballo’s educational road began as a shy kindergarten student to immigrant parents. She was so introverted that the teacher didn’t think she understood English therefore was placed in...

Miami Lakes resident Perla Hantman was elected chair of the Miami-Dade County School Board for the 2017-2018 school year, serving an unprecedented 10th time as the leader of the board. Dr. Martin Karp was elected vice chair, his third time as second in command for the School Board. “I would like to thank my fellow School Board member for their confidence in electing me, once again, to serve as chair of the School Board,” Hantman...

Barbara Goleman High School’s Giving Gators, in collaboration with Mayor Manny Cid and Councilmember Marilyn Ruano and community partners, distributed Thanksgiving meals to famlies within all six Miami Lakes schools. The group expressed appreciation to Rudy Hernandez and Denis Brenes of Nu World Title, LLC, Marcos Cabral of PRMG Doral, Jose Conde of American Bancshares Mortgage, Costco of Miami Lakes and Sir Speedy of Miami Lakes....

The Pace High School community continued its annual tradition of collecting food for its annual Tons of Love food drive. Beginning in October, Pace students, parents, teachers, staff, alumni, and friends began to gather non-perishable and canned food items to benefit the needy in South Florida. Similar to past years, the collected tally equalled over a ton-and-a-half of food.  On November 17, the Pace student body celebrated the...

Mater Academy’s STEM students recently took home first place in the second annual Miami Heat STEM Challenge Day, which took place at the American Airlines Arena. The students’ winning project was building a robot which can dribble a basketball the most times in one minute. The Lionbots rose to the challenge and out dueled a host of middle schools from Miami-Dade and Broward counties.