Pace High School is inviting all students in grades 5 through 8 to its 4th Annual Spartan Arts Boot Camp on October 3. Campers will enjoy an intensive exciting day with a morning and afternoon session focused on the school’s Signature Academies for art, dance, drama, and music.    The sessions offered are Drawing and Sculpture for Art, Jazz and Hip Hop for Dance, Theatre and Musical Theatre for Drama, and Beginner and...

  The Kiwanis Club of Greater Miami Lakes has recently chartered the Key Club at American Senior High School. The addition of American’s Key Club brings the total of sponsored leadership programs in area high schools to a total of seven. Key Clubs are present at Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High, Miami Lakes Educational Center, Mater Lakes Academy, Hialeah Gardens Senior High, Jose Marti MAST Academy, and Barbara Goleman Senior...

  Catholic Hospice, a not-for-profit health care organization based in Miami Lakes and providing end-of-life care to terminally ill patients and their families, is currently recruiting hospice volunteers to visit patients and their caregivers. Hospice volunteers can help with errands, provide a listening ear or help in other meaningful ways. All interested volunteers will receive necessary training and are partnered with patients who...

  Seven freshmen and two sophomores were welcomed into Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Spartan Sword and Shield Honors program at a breakfast held in the school’s Innovation Center on September 1. The breakfast was themed “Oh, The Places You’ll Go,” echoing the program’s purpose of preparing its members for Ivy League and Top 10 universities. The newest additions to Pace’s elite program...

  The Miami-Dade School Board unanimously approved three items proposed by School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman recognizing high school graduates who attained a high level of competency in a world language, endorsed October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout the district, and proclaimed October 19-25, 2015 as National Teen Driver Safety Week. “The purpose of the Seal of Biliteracy is to encourage students to...