Francisco Garnica transformed from a lightning bolt to a patriot with his transition from assistant principal at Michael Krop Senior High School to American Senior High School. Garnica was born in an island in the Carribean, San Andres. He arrived to the states a day before his 20th birthday and began working toward a degree at Miami Dade College where he met his wife of 23 years, Maria Martinez. Together they decided to move to...

  Jose Marti MAST Academy students were recognized for earning a perfect score in one or more areas of the 2014 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). FCAT covers reading, mathematics and science for grades 3 through 11. The FCAT is administered to all students in Florida public school and is required to receive a high school diploma.  Perfect scoring students in seventh grade included Manuel Avila, Roberto Garcia, Raphael...

  Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) recently launched a new mobile application to provide parents, students, and employees faster access to up-to-date school information.  The official Dadeschools Mobile App is now available to download for free on iPhone and Android devices. The mobile app features student class schedules and bus route information, list of all Dade schools and school information, functionality to contact...

  Hialeah Miami Lakes High School will hold its annual School Open House event at 6:30 p.m.on Tuesday, September 30, at 7977 West 12th Avenue. The event allows parents and students to tour the school, gain important information about students’ educational and parental involvement, new students to become more familiar with the facilities and meet their peers, and open informal communication channels between school staff, students...

  Miami Lakes Educational Center’s (MLEC) Cambridge Academy announced that Robert Michan Walsh, a senior in the journalism strand, earned the highest marks in the country on the Thinking Skills Exam. Students in the Cambridge Academy take a series of exams written to go along with a rigorous curriculum designed by Cambridge University in England. Students who pass the exams earn university credits. At MLEC, Cambridge students take...