MIAMI-DADE – Hundreds of schoolchildren are well-prepared for the upcoming school year after receiving free book bags and school supplies from County Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz. The event took place July 31 in the Chairman’s Doral district office.

Massachusetts, The Authentic Caribbean Foundation (ACF) will be offering neuro-divergent training this summer to Caribbean educators who work with the Disability community. The program is the result of a partnership between ACF and Lesley University Caribbean Institute, Teaching for Neurodiversity and is geared at addressing the educational needs of neuro-divergent children diagnosed along the spectrum of Autism, ADHD, and Dyslexia.   This major initiative will be offered in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, July 26; The Bahamas, August 2; Jamaica, August 9 and Saint Kitts and Nevis August 16. Saint Lucia completed its training on July 12.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has historically received large numbers of foreign-born students during periods of unrest or when natural disasters impact areas in Latin America and the Caribbean.

When students return to the schoolhouse for in-person learning in August, it will have been 18 months since the onset of the pandemic. For most students, the return to a measure of normalcy will be welcomed, for others, the transition may be challenging. The fact that some youth will struggle is not surprising nor unexpected.

MIAMI, Florida, – Miami Norland Senior High School has been chosen as a recipient of the 2021 High School Initiative, an athletic training donation program sponsored by a partnership between Medco Sports Medicine (Medco), the leading supplier of athletic training and sports medicine products; Cramer Sports Medicine (Cramer), a leading manufacturer of sports medicine products; and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS), representing the athletic trainers of the National Football League (NFL).

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has announced a ‘Recover Smarter-National School Learning and Intervention Plan’ aimed at helping students to recover from learning loss due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Multi-Ethnic Youth Group Association (M.E.Y.G.A) Learning Center, Miami-Dade County and Related Urban Development Group (RUDG) hosted a field trip for Liberty City summer camp participants to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The trip was a part of Liberty Square's summer youth program, which aims to empower and develop local youths, and saw 140 students from K-12 explore the latest innovations in aeronautics and astronomy. This trip marked the first official trip of its kind for students in the Liberty City neighborhood. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of the West Indies (UWI) says it has no intention to increase tuition fees as it announced new initiatives to fund the operations of the region’s main tertiary institution.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) crystallizing these three major threads of collaboration in education, trade policy and in youth development.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermuda is set to close eight of its government-run primary schools as part of a major overhaul of the public school system because of dwindling enrolment numbers.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) has warned the government that it will not give it a clean slate ahead of the re-opening of schools in September in light of the ongoing concerns regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The World Bank has approved a US$6.7 million grant from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for the Guyana Education Sector Program Project that is aimed at improving learning in nursery schools, increase technology use in primary schools, and improve functionality of the national education management information system.