When a flight attendant on Flight #1514 from Washington, D.C. to Chicago went on the P.A. and asked, “Are there any medical personnel on board?”  It was not a well-seasoned doctor in his late 50’s that got up. Instead, Nicole Rosello, 17, rushed out of her seat to help. Rosello, a senior in the Health Academy at Miami Lakes Educational Center, is a Certified Nursing Assistant and a Student Practical Nurse. She...

  Mercedes Sabates (back, center), Spanish Lake Elementary (SLE) media specialist, plays a critical role in boosting educational success, according to the school, through opening the school’s library every Wednesday night. The Accelerated Reader (AR) program, news-team sponsor, and technology support all benefit from library usage on Wednesday evenings. During National Library Week, recognized from April 12 through 18, the school...

  With a rousing production of the classic musical Oklahoma! back in January, students in Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s drama program were looking forward to putting on a modern musical classic: Hairspray. “It was their dream show for a lot of them,” said Christina Pla-Guzman, Lead Teacher of Pace’s Academy for Visual and Performing Arts Theatre Program. “Them wanting to do it so much made me want to...

  Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) has eliminated the End Of Course (EOC) examinations that were scheduled to take place at the end of the 2015 school year for all Miami-Dade students. The EOC exams, which were previously used for decisions on student promotion, retention, graduation and teacher evaluation, will only be administered to a small testing group of students randomly selected from Miami-Dade County middle and senior...

  Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School’s (HML) Mu Alpha Theta club celebrated Pi Day, a date that was celebrated around the world on March 14. The date, 3/14/15, formed the first five numbers of the mathematical symbol Pi that represents the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter, 3.14159.  The event, hosted by the Mu Alpha Theta sponsor, Marielena Viciedo, the Math Department head, Madeline Domenech and math...