Browse past news stories for Van E. Blanton Elementary School in Miami, FL.

• The saddest day (Miami Herald)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 12:12:59 am
  It is hard to believe that it has been 46 years since John F. Kennedy died. On Nov. 22, 1963 I was in fifth grade at Van E. Blanton Elementary School in Miami. We were making Thanksgiving turkeys in art class. At 3 p.m., school let out. All the students were talking about what to do on the weekend. Suddenly, a boy with a radio shouted, ``President Kennedy just died! He got shot!'' Teachers and ...
• W.J. Bryan and Van E. Blanton elementary schools match wits in annual Brain Bowl (Miami Herald)
  posted on May 26, 2009 at 07:03:38 pm
  W.J. Bryan Elementary School students had been waiting months to hear five special words from the organizers of the seventh annual Elementary School Brain Bowl. And with the ding of a bell, their dreams came true.