Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) held a successful National College fair at the Doubletree Miami Airport Hotel. Thousands of students and their parents attended the four-hour event to meet with representatives of more than 200 colleges and universities from around the world, to ask questions about admissions, financial aid and testing requirements. “The College Fair provides families with valuable information that...

  Pace High School freshman, D’Andre Ragin, was selected as one of the winners for the 2015 Disney Dreamers Academy Essay Contest. Ragin is one of only 100 high school students from across the United States chosen to attend the 2015 Disney Dreamers Academy at the Walt Disney World Resort from March 5 through 8.  Working in conjunction with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE Magazine, the Disney Dreamers Academy is an educational...

  For the past five years the Bobcat Cheerleaders at Bob Graham Education Center have been a force to be reckoned with, winning first place in their regional, state and national cheer competitions year after year. This year, with their new head coach, Aisha Davis, the Bobcat Cheerleaders continue that winning momentum by opening up the cheer season with a first place ranking in their division at the Regional Cheer Competition on...

  State Representative Manny Diaz Jr., (R-Hialeah), chair of the Choice and Innovation Subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives, is sponsoring a bill aimed that numerically ranks schools and allows  Florida’s top schools the flexibility to hire experts in certain fields like history or science without prior certification. According to Diaz, HB 875 is to reward the top schools by bringing the brightest minds in...

  Perla Tabares Hantman, chairman of the Miami-Dade County School Board, was reappointed to serve on the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization Governing Board (MPO) by Governor Rick Scott for an additional term ending December 16, 2017. “The MPO guides the transportation planning process in Miami-Dade County, and I am honored to serve on this board for my fifth consecutive term,” Hantman said.