The Superintendent's Honors Orchestra is a part of the Miami-Dade County Honors Music Festival that students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools audition to be a part of at either the elementary or secondary level in orchestra, band, and choir.   Miami Lakes K-8 Center students Ariana Rejas and Francis Dalipe, both eighth graders auditioned for the first time and were selected to this elite group of string...

  School for Advanced Studies (SAS), a nationally recognized collegiate high school, will be opening a new campus at Miami Dade College (MDC) West Campus for the 2016-2017 school year. Current Miami-Dade County 10th-graders with a minimum unweighted 3.0 grade point average are invited to apply, and may become eligible for admission upon satisfying all program requirements, including earning minimum SAS college entrance exam scores....

  Barbara Goleman High School awarded senior football player Antonio Rodriguez the fifth annual Ricky Quintanilla Scholarship award for 2016. The award honors the memory of late Goleman football coach who died of cancer in 2011. As an offensive lineman, Rodriguez was a big part of the Gator’s running game, as the team averaged the most rushing yards in South Florida, according to head coach Ariel Cribeiro. Rodriguez, who’s...

  In its inaugural “Spartans in the NFL” ceremony on March 16, Monsignor Edward Pace High School honored six of their distinguished alumni who have played or are currently playing on an active NFL roster. It was a homecoming for these Pace alumni, including Super Bowl 50 champion and Denver Broncos cornerback Kayvon Webster, a Pace Class of 2009 alumnus. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Stephen Morris (Class of 2010), DeMarcus...

  Nineteen students at Mater Academy Charter School competed at the Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) State Leadership Conference in Orlando last weekend and brought home nine gold winners, seven silver and three bronze winners. Eleven students qualified to represent Mater Academy FCCLA in the national competition at San Diego, California. They are Billy Johnston, Pamela Mulkay, Jennifer Camejo, Kimberly Valentin,...