Broward College named Christina Paniagua to its dean’s list for the fall, 2021 semester.      “I’m very proud because it’s been tough,” Paniagua, 35, said.      She was referring to juggling her full-time job as an accountant with The Graham Companies.       She is also married to high school sweetheart Daniel Paniagua and is the mother of their...

     The American Library of Poetry has published a poem by Camila Forero in its annual student anthology “Expressions.”      Camila’s poem “Spring” was chosen for the collection. She is a fifth-grade student at Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes and her work is included with writing by students from across the country who are in the third to twelfth...

     Students from Lawton Chiles Middle School won 1st place in the 2021 - 2022 SECME Festival and Olympiad Bridge competition held remotely by Miami-Dade County Public Schools on Jan. 29.      The winners shown above are, from left: Kennedy Granville and Agustin Betancourt, both in seventh grade and Amerie Cummings, eighth grade at the school, at 8190 NW 197th St. in Miami.      The students...

     The Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board welcomed new Supt. Jose L. Dotres on Feb. 14.      The board hired Dotres on Jan. 24. He began his career in county schools where he advanced to principal and administrative positions.      Dotres also was a chief academic officer in Broward County Public Schools overseeing funding for Title I and Head Start, and for nine months, deputy...

     The TD Ready Challenge awarded a $1 million grant to The Education Fund, a non-profit in Miami Lakes which supports public school teachers and students in Miami-Dade County.      The Education Fund said it will put the money toward creating a new math curriculum to be taught at 51 elementary schools in the county that use food forests and gardens to teach science and provide vegetables to students and...