Bob Graham Education Center principal, Yecenia Martinez-Lopez, and Councilmember Ceasar Mestre were dressed in their superhero finest at the “Be an Everyday Superhero” MDCPS Principal for a Day Breakfast. Mestre will be the BGEC principal for the day on November 19. 

  While today Wifredo Ferrer wears a crisp, grey suit, the Hialeah boy with Cuban parents lingers; the “Cubanito” comes to the surface as he retells stories from his childhood and his climb to the top. The Spanish he learned as a child and that his “mom forced [him] to keep,” swirls into his English, as he slips comfortably, into occasional Spanglish during a visit to Miami Lakes Educational Center. The U.S....

 

Students at Miami Lakes K-8 Center donated $1 to wear costumes for the school’s Harvest Fest. The funds raised go toward United Way, a widely recognized organization that works to create solutions for communities around the world with a focus on education, income and health. Students and faculty participated in the event with a variety of costumes. 

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s girls varsity volleyball team has seen great success under head coach Markia Brown-Seetal, winning the district championship in 2014. Thus far, the 2015 season has been no different, as the team netted a 6-3 district record and an 11-7 overall record. While October was the month for district and regional finals in volleyball, it was also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, something that the team...

  Miami-Dade Public School Board unanimously approved three items proposed by Board chair Perla Tabares Hantman encouraging WLRN Television and Radio to keep developing educational programming that will enhance and support Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ educational programs, and endorsing National Parental Involvement Day on November 19, and National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month in October. “For more than 65 years,...