Miami-Dade School Board chairwoman Perla Tabares Hantman and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle recently recognized Miami Lakes Educational Center student Samoa Blanchet for winning the District 4 Human Trafficking Awareness Art Contest. The contest was sponsored by Rundle’s office and Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Human trafficking in Florida is the illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation or...

  Cayla Pla was just one of the many members of Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Class of 2015 who graduated this past May. However, her graduation marks yet another chapter in a tradition of five Spartan Pla women.This tradition started with Cayla’s mother Carmen Pla-Izquierdo, a Pace Class of 1981 alumna. Carmen studied in the health field after Pace, receiving a Bachelors and Masters degree in Health Services...

  Miami-Dade County School Board members honored 136 graduating students for successfully managing to attend every school day during their tenure with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Regular and punctual school attendance is one of the most important factors to a student’s progress in school. School attendance is widely regarded as a major contributing element in academic performance and student conduct. To earn this...

  Three Miami Lakes residents earned honors at their respective colleges and universities in May and June. Michael Gomez, a Business Administration/Sports Management major, earned a bachelor’s degree at Florida Institute of Technology’s Spring Commencement. FIT is located in Melbourne. Eduardo Crespo, a student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, as among the 900 students who made the President’s List for the...

  Following the end of the 2014-2015 school year, Miami-Dade School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman and Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho honored District 4 principals during a luncheon at El Novillo restaurant in Miami Lakes for their hard work and dedication to their schools and students. “The Principals Luncheon allows me the opportunity to greet and thank the principals in District 4 for their continuous...