Miami Lakes Educational Center hosted an event called MLEC UN Day, wherein students showed their cultural roots by displaying stations with food, music and art from their heritage. Pictured is a group of students at the Haiti display. Many nationalities were celebrated in the event which served to educate others and create camaraderie.

The Miami Dolphins brought a little football, a little music, a little dancing, and a whole lot of fun to their Hometown Huddle event Tuesday, October 18 at Bob Graham Education Center. October is National Bullying Prevention month and along with representatives from PACER.org, the Dolphins helped students learn how to stop and report a bully.  Former Dolphin players Troy Drayton and Lousaka Polite spoke to the students and ran them...

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board chair Perla Tabares Hantman, along with district representatives, community members, students and faculty from Miami Lakes K-8 Center participated in the 2016 Walk Our Children To School day on Tuesday, October 4.The International Walk to School Day event increases the awareness of safe walking skills, safe routes to schools for students and parents, as well as walking as an exercise that promotes good...

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has been named best in the state for its civil citation efforts for the second consecutive year. According to “Stepping Up: Florida’s Top Juvenile Civil Citation Efforts” 2016 report, M-DCPS ranks number one in terms of utilization of civil citations, calculated by using the percentage of eligible students who received a civil citation. The study indicates that the increased use...

Miami Lakes Educational Center’s Social Studies Department chair John Moffi received a call from the Miami-Dade Public Schools district looking for students who would be discussing the much-watched and highly anticipated presidential debate. CBS4 reporter Ted Scouten visited the school to speak with the students in Neyda Borges’ journalism classroom. Borges’ students have been researching and following the updates and...