On Saturday, October 4, Monsignor Edward Pace High School is holding the third annual SpARTan Arts Boot Camp for students from grades 5 through 8. The camp takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Pace Spartan Center. Students will be able to learn and improve their skills in art, drama, music, and dance in workshops led by Pace teachers. Art workshops include drawing and sculpture, dance workshops include jazz and hip hop,...

  Bob Graham Education Center has added more electives to its middle school program. The additional electives offered are Law Studies II, Band, Music Appreciation, Music, and Creating Writing. Geometry has also been added to the mathematical class selections for advanced students. The school is confident that the new electives will strengthen the core instruction currently in place. Band director Carlos Perez (standing left rear) is...

  What does it mean to “Keep It Real?” At the start of the new school year, Dade Christian School (DCS) polled some of its students and faculty members about what “Keeping It Real” means to them. Their responses: • “To be honest with yourself and who you are.” • “Being faithful and being truthful with yourself and your peers.” • Having faith in God and being real with...

  U.S Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart is inviting residents of Congressional District 25 to his Service Academy Day, scheduled for 8:30 a.m., Saturday September 20, at the U.S. Southern Command Center, 9301 N.W. 33 Street in Doral. Participants applying to a service academy will be provided a comprehensive overview of the United States service academies and their admission process. In addition, they will be able to meet with officials...

  The School Board unanimously approved two agenda items proposed by School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman endorsing October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout Miami-Dade County Public Schools and National Teen Driver Safety Week on October 19-25. In 2014 alone, an estimated 232,670 women will be newly diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in the U.S. An estimated 15,480 of those new cases will be diagnosed among...