Miami Lakes Educational Center's Krisna Maddy was recognized as one of 1,000 recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, a national scholarship organization funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  The scholarship covers unmet need and self-help aid for the cost of education, applicable to any college or university and is renewable maintaining the student meets satisfactory academic progress. The scholarship can also...

  Miami-Dade County Public Schools honored winners and runner-ups for District Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year. The awards ceremony, sponsored by Dade Association of School Administrators (D.A.S.A.), was held in late March at Jungle Island.  Jose Bueno, who serves as principal of Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School (HML), won top honors as the District's Principal of the Year. Bueno, a Miami Lakes resident and a...

  On Wednesday, April 16, Mater Gardens Academy held an award ceremony in honor of the students who placed in their classroom spelling bee competitions, as well as the students who moved on to compete against other schools. The spelling bee competitions begin at the classroom level. Students compete against classmates for first, second and third place. These finalists then move on to compete against other classrooms in their grade level...

  If Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) recognized valedictorians, senior Flavia Cuervo would take the title for the 2013-2014 school year. The senior, who ranks as top student with a 6.39 weighted grade-point average, now has to decide which Ivy League school to attend. Cuervo was admitted into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins, in addition to the in-state schools she applied to including the University of Miami, Florida...

  Jose Marti Middle School first opened its doors in 1987 under the direction of long time Miami Lakes resident Jose Enriquez Sr., and has since come full circle into the hands of his son, current principal Jose Enriquez Jr. Jose Marti transformed from a middle school with a hard reputation to a MAST Academy program for grades 6 through 12 three years ago, joining the other three MAST Academies in Dade County including the Biscayne...