Baseball players who graduated from local schools were taken in last month’s MLB amateur draft, the first step of fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing in the pros. University of Miami and former Mater Academy outfielder Willie Abreu was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the sixth round of the draft.  As a  junior, Abreu registered a .283 batting average, 127 hits, 75 RBI  and seven home runs.He was named to the...

Spanish Lake Elementary fifth grade teacher, Lesley Caraballo, implemented a new program at the school in an effort to link graduates to graduating seniors at Miami-Dade County schools who also attended SLE. The school first opened its doors in 2007 and with the launch of this program seniors have returned to their alma mater to speak about their experiences and plans after graduation. The program took place the last week of...

Since 2001, Pace High School has been sending Spartans to the Marist Youth Gathering, an annual gathering for high school students from Marist schools across North America. Pace students Keanu Orfano, Cortni-Ann Palmer, Keylin McNeal, Juliana Quintero, and Hector Santa Maria all made the trip this year to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, over Memorial Day weekend. They were chaperoned by Alex Gomez, a Pace Class of 2011 alumnus,...

Miami-Dade County Public School Board representatives are pictured with officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation at a meeting that celebrated the partnership of the FBI with Barbara Goleman Senior High School and Miami Palmetto Senior High School. Goleman leads the Law Enforcement and Intelligence Magnet and Miami Palmetto leads the Forensic Investigative Academy.

Helping Cuban citizens through difficult situations related to the U.S. Cuban embargo can be challenging, but very rewarding for an attorney. St. Thomas Law student, Betsy Vázquez de Rincón, learned the reality of it, first-hand, while traveling to Cuba with Elder Law Adjunct professor and attorney Enrique Zamora recently.The trip was coordinated in conjunction with the law school's Elder Law Society, of which Zamora serves...