State Representative Manny Diaz Jr., (R-Hialeah), chair of the Choice and Innovation Subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives, is sponsoring a bill aimed that numerically ranks schools and allows  Florida’s top schools the flexibility to hire experts in certain fields like history or science without prior certification. According to Diaz, HB 875 is to reward the top schools by bringing the brightest minds in...

  Perla Tabares Hantman, chairman of the Miami-Dade County School Board, was reappointed to serve on the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization Governing Board (MPO) by Governor Rick Scott for an additional term ending December 16, 2017. “The MPO guides the transportation planning process in Miami-Dade County, and I am honored to serve on this board for my fifth consecutive term,” Hantman said.  

  The Exonerated, a play written by actors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, will be presented as a play-reading at The Main Street Playhouse, on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14 at 8 p.m. The play is based on true stories of people who were sentenced and placed on death row before their exoneration. The stories are told like vignettes, each person explaining the details of how they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and...

  The Project Citizen students at Bob Graham Education Center are tackling an Autism issue that may pique the interest of local and state government officials. The seventh grade Project Citizen students, which is part of the school’s Law Studies class, discovered a problem among adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – about 75 percent of them are unemployed. The group interviewed a large group of people in the community...

  Miami Lakes will once again host the popular Start Smart Sports Development Program. Developed by the National Alliance for Youth Sports, the program aims to help prepare children, ages 3-5 years old, for organized youth sports by using safe and fun equipment while developing basic motor skills. The 6-week program helps parents work one-on-one with their children while teaching them the basics of sports like throwing, catching,...