Salvation Army Hialeah is hosting a Youth Talent Show, “Jesus is my Superhero,” at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 6, at 7450 West 4 Avenue. More than a dozen singing and dancing acts will be on the program along with food. Admission is $10 and funds help pay for youth to go to Youth Councils. For tickets, call 305-915-9311. For more information, contact Capt. Kelly Durant at 305-557-0981.

    Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Alberto M. Carvalho, attended the 2014-2015 Student RoundTable event held at Barbara Goleman Senior High School on February 6. A small group of representative students from each Miami-Dade high school in the north region were invited to attend the event and engage in a question and answer session with the superintendent. High schools represented at the event included Miami...

  Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High’s Model United Nations (UN) group attended the Miami-Dade Model UN Conference on February 21 at Miami Dade College and was awarded the Secretary General’s Award for Outstanding High School out of approximately 30 competing high schools from Miami-Dade County.  Additionally individual students were awarded in several categories, including Jessica Duque and Daniel Ramirez, Best Delegates...

    Barbara Goleman Senior High School has named English teacher, Isabel Oheida, this year’s Teacher of the Year. Oheida, a Goleman alumna herself from the Class of 1998, was born and raised in Miami and from the time she was a child, knew her passion lay in teaching. “My favorite toy was always the chalkboard,” said Oheida. “I would play for hours on end with the chalkboard and books, along with my...

  Miami-Dade County School Board unanimously approved two items proposed by Board chair Perla Tabares Hantman at its regular meeting in early January. The items endorse the addition of schools to the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program and March 2015 as Arts in Our Schools’ Month. “The District’s goal is to provide SRTS improvements for all public schools. Since 2007, the School Board has endorsed and submitted 91...