Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) graduation rate has reached an all-time high of 80.4 percent for the 2015-2016 academic year, exceeding the average of other large Florida school districts, including Broward, Hillsborough, and Duval county. This 2.3 point increase from last year’s rate of 78.1 marks the highest graduation rate M-DCPS has achieved since the Florida Department of Education began tracking graduation...

Hundreds of students from all over the state of Florida auditioned for the All-State Elementary Chorus and this year, two of Bobcat singers from Bob Graham Education Center were accepted into this prestigious ensemble. In January, Elizabeth Cortina and Alejandro Ugarte performed in Tampa at the Florida Music Education Association in front of hundreds of music educators and parents from all over Florida. Bob Graham Education...

While working to become the next Ernest Hemingway and write the next Great American novel, Joseph Walpole saw a sign – literally. He saw an advertisement on a bulletin board looking for teachers, and so he called the phone number. If you had asked him years ago, he would not have guessed that he’d land at Miami Lakes Educational Center as an English/AICE teacher. Despite this, he is officially the school’s Teacher of...

The Bob Graham Education Center Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Academy competed on January 28 at the RoboSlam VEX IQ competition at the Miami Youth Fair Grounds. The teams’ ‘Savage Robots’ finished in 5th place in the team competition out of the 54 teams competing. The team was led by teacher Marilyn Dieppa.The team qualified to compete in the VEX IQ state competition for their STEM research project which...

Eighth grade students from Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School captured fourth place at the Florida First Robotics Competition held at The Benjamin School in North Palm Beach.The competition was the South Florida Regional Qualifying Tournament as part of the First® Lego® League program by First Inspires.“I was impressed by the students’ faith throughout the competition,” said Kristina Bacallao, the STREAM (Science,...