As proposed by chair Perla Tabares Hantman, the Miami-Dade School Board voted unanimously to promote and encourage participation in the 2015 Miami National College Fair, and also endorsed the 2015 Annual Teen Driver Safety Public Service Announcement (PSA) and Poster Contest that is open to all District Senior High Schools. The College Fair, scheduled for February 22 from noon to 4 p.m., will have representatives from more than 200...

  Four Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) students, Alejandra Mendoza, Salwa Raza, David Pacheco, and Julissa Higgins spent the end of 2014 celebrating after learning they had been accepted early to prestigious universities across the nation. Mendoza, a Questbridge full tuition scholarship recipient, was accepted to Columbia University. Raza, a Posse scholar, was accepted at Mount Holyoke. Pacheco was accepted to Massachusetts...

  Perla Tabares Hantman, chair of Miami-Dade School Board, digs in at the groundbreaking for the school district’s General Obligation Bond construction project at Hialeah Senior High School. She is joined by (from left) principal Heriberto Sanchez, Chief Facilities Officer Jaime G. Torrens, and Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho. The $15 million project includes major building improvements, upgrades to lighting, plumbing,...

  U.S. Paralympics, a division of the Olympic Committee, is partnering with Miami-Dade County Public Schools to implement a school-based Paralympic sports program. This program, made possible through a grant from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, will provide a pathway for students with disabilities to participate in extracurricular athletics, specifically track and field in the 2015 spring semester. The team from U.S. Paralympics coming...

  Nancy Handley retired from Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) ending a huge chapter in her life and in the lives of countless students. “Work is not work if you love what you do,” said Handley, a phrase that has defined her career, spanning 44 years in the classroom. Handley began her teaching career as a home economics teacher, then worked as a health teacher and then a physical education...