Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) graduation rate has reached an all-time high of 80.4 percent for the 2015-2016 academic year, exceeding the average of other large Florida school districts, including Broward, Hillsborough, and Duval county. This 2.3 point increase from last year’s rate of 78.1 marks the highest graduation rate M-DCPS has achieved since the Florida Department of Education began tracking graduation...

Hundreds of students from all over the state of Florida auditioned for the All-State Elementary Chorus and this year, two of Bobcat singers from Bob Graham Education Center were accepted into this prestigious ensemble. In January, Elizabeth Cortina and Alejandro Ugarte performed in Tampa at the Florida Music Education Association in front of hundreds of music educators and parents from all over Florida. Bob Graham Education...

In response to the growing need to properly care for the community’s senior residents, The Graham Companies has worked for several years with community and industry leaders, performed feasibility studies, and engaged design professionals to develop a plan to access a broad spectrum of senior lifestyle needs in Miami Lakes.Modeled after a similar project working well in California, a plan has emerged that Graham representatives believe...

Real Women Have Curves, The Main Street Player’s first professional play, opened on February 3 to enthusiastic audiences and rave reviews. Jesse Leaf from Around Town magazine said, “Josefina Lopez has dug deep into her past and the Main Street Players has given viable life to this multi-faceted  ‘immigrants in search of the American Dream’ light drama, making it even more relevant today than when first...

Miami Lakes Economic Development Committee will host a Crowdfunding panel workshop on Thursday, February 23, in Town Hall Chambers, 6601 Main Street.Networking and registration will take place from 8:30 to 9 a.m., and the workshop thereafter.Co-sponsored by the Miami-Dade Beacon Council, the Small Business Administration, and MICROscholarships, Inc., the workshop will be moderated by Sheri Colas-Gervais of the Beacon Council.In 2015, it was...