Miami Lakes Council sets tax rate

Featured By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Thursday, October 3, 2024

     A majority of the Miami Lakes council voted to approve a 2.0732 tax rate and a $21.6 million operating budget during its second hearing on those issues.      The millage rate for the 2024 – 2025 fiscal...

Pace boys, girls basketball teams run through Districts and Regionals

Sports By Rene D. Basulto, Special to The Miami Laker Wednesday, February 18, 2015

  Fans of Monsignor Edward Pace High School basketball have had a lot to enjoy over the past few weeks, as both the boys and the girls basketball teams have carried their successes from the regular season into district and regional tournaments.  The Spartans boys basketball team went 17-9 in the regular season and were ranked #1 in their district. The team’s fast offensive style, which has earned them the moniker of the...

Pace High School's baseball season opens with 13th annual Pace Baseball Banquet

Sports By Rene D. Basulto, Special to The Miami Laker Wednesday, February 18, 2015

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s JV and varsity baseball players traded their uniforms for dress shirts and fancy shoes at the 13th Annual Pace Baseball Banquet on February 7. Held inside Pace’s Spartan Center, the Banquet was a formal Mardi-Gras-themed evening attended by Pace baseball players, their families, and friends to commemorate the start of the new baseball season. Pace varsity baseball manager, Thomas Duffin,...

Washinton & Lee's Dean's List

Education Wednesday, February 18, 2015

 

Miami Lakes resident Stephanie Fouts and former Miami Lakes resident Amanda Meador have earned Dean’s List status for the recently ended fall term 2014 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. A student must earn above a 3.4 grade point average to be on the Dean’s List. Meador also earned Honor Roll status with a grade point average of at least 3.75.
  On February 6, Monsignor Edward Pace High School hosted its annual Career Day where 50 career professionals spoke with current Pace students. Among these visitors was U.S. Congresswoman and Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Ros-Lehtinen told her life story, explained her work in Washington, and took questions from a packed room of students inside Pace’s Spartan Center before the school’s opening bell. For the...

MLEC earns 8th 'A' grade amid educational changes

Home By Daniel Saiz, Special to The Miami Laker Wednesday, February 18, 2015

  In 2008, Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) was rated an “A” school in education due to high test scores. Since that time MLEC has had to adapt to an increasing amount of changes that both the District and the state have enforced, including changes in standardized testing, salary cuts and layoffs and unreasonably high expectations. Every year since has been an increasingly difficult journey towards success, one that...
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