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...

  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...

  Representatives from nearly 200 colleges and universities will be at the 2015 National College Fair in Miami from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, February 22, at the Doubletree Miami Airport Hotel & Convention Center, 777 N.W. 72 Avenue. The free fair allows students, parents and other members of the public to meet with college representatives and get their questions answered. Free information sessions on financial aid, college planning...

  After closing out last year with a popular production of the musical “In the Heights,” Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Drama students were puzzled when they found out that their Winter 2015 production would be the 1943 musical “Oklahoma!” When asked why she chose a country-themed romantic comedy set in 1903, Pace’s Drama teacher Christina Pla-Guzman said that it was not only because the play...

    Twelve students from Monsignor Edward Pace High School headed to Washington D.C. in early January for Close Up, an educational experience for high school students to learn more about how the federal government and the nation’s capital operates. Chaperoned by Pace’s Dean of Students Valerie Lloyd and history teacher Victoria Spadafora, the students became part of a 30 year tradition for Pace which has been sending...