With finals just around the corner, Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Fine Arts Department brought out the Christmas cheer with its 2015 Christmas show “Grinchmas.” Pace students, parents, faculty, alumni, and friends came out to the Spartan Center on the evening of December 11 to watch Pace Academy for Visual & Performing Arts Dance, Theatre, Art, and Music Programs put on a show based on the Dr. Seuss...

  The Bobcat Law Society students at Bob Graham Education Center last week won first place at the District’s We the People competition and will be representing Miami-Dade County at the state competition next month. The eighth-grade students simulated a congressional hearing in which they testified before a panel of volunteer attorneys, educators and leaders demonstrating their understanding of the constitutional principles and...

  When parents drop their kids off to Miami Lakes Middle School, Principal Dr. Manuel Sanchez lets them know each day that their children are now his kids. “Their kids are my kids,” said Sanchez, who is the father of two young children. “I treat them as if they are my own biological kids. They don’t have to wait to see me, they can come to my office at any time to talk or they see me a lot in the classrooms and...

  Kelly Falcon, a junior at Hialeah Miami Lakes High, won first place in the High School Division of the “Cervantes Outstanding Student Essay Awards” presented by Nova Southeastern University’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education Hispanic Advisory Board. Her 500-word essay was selected amongst the submissions of public and private schools across the district. HML principal Eric Acosta is pictured with Regional...

  For the ninth straight year, Pace High School sent two busloads of toys and choir singers to NBC 6 and Telemundo 51’s Caravan of Joy toy drive on December 11. Pace’s participation in the Caravan of Joy has become a nearly decade-long tradition, and the school’s Christmas Toy Drive has brought joy to girls and boys in South Florida. Over 500 toys were donated by the Pace community and collected by members of the Drama...