Carmen Sandino, senior at American Senior High School was named as one of 30 students throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties and selected among hundreds of applicants for this year’s Silver Knight award winners, a program created and continued by The Miami Herald to showcase the accomplishments of local students. The winners were announced at the James L. Knight Center in Downtown Miami on May 20.  Sandino reportedly...

  A group of students at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School (HML) were recently honored for acceptance into various universities. The seniors were recognized during a ceremony held in the school’s iVillage center that houses the iPrep Academy.  The students were also treated to lunch in the school’s library and were each given a certificate to commemorate their achievement. About 74 seniors were accepted into the...

 

Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho has been awarded the FBI Director’s 2014 Community Leadership Award in recognition of his work enhancing students’ academic enrichment. The announcement was made last December, and FBI director James Comey presented the award on May 4 in Washington, D.C.

 

Emily Caraballo, a resident of Miami Lakes and third grade student at Somerset Academy, won first place at the school’s Somerset’s Got Talent show. The talent show included all Somerset schools in South Florida. Caraballo choreographed and danced her own routine using the song “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars. 

  The Miami-Dade County School Board unanimously approved two items proposed by Board chair Perla Tabares Hantman at its regular meeting in mid May endorsing a national seat belt enforcement campaign from May 18 through May 31, 2015 and May as vision health awareness month. “The National 2015 “Click It or Ticket” campaign promotes seat belt usage, which is the single most effective way to reduce injuries and fatalities...