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MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
TO HOLD MAGNET PROGRAM RECRUITMENT

Contact: Dr. Henry C. Fraind
305-995-1206

February 5, 1999


The International Business and Finance Academy at Miami Jackson Senior High School will hold a recruiting program, Thursday, Feb. 11, from 9 to 11:30 a.m., at the school, 1751 N.W. 36 Street. Over 400 Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) middle school students are expected to attend. They will have the opportunity to apply to the academy, which is a magnet program of M-DCPS, for the 1999-2000 school year.

The Academy for International Business and Finance prepares students to be business leaders. The program focuses on international business and technology. Academy graduates have been honored nationally and participate on the school~s local advisory committee.

Miami Jackson Senior High School's academy is a member program of the National Academy Foundation (NAF). NAF currently operates Acadernies of Finance and Academies of Travel & Tourism through major support from Citigroup, the American Express Company, Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc., Bloomberg Financial Markets, the Fannie Mae Foundation, McGraw-Hill, Inc., Global Vacation GrouL;5 F'rudential Securities, Inc. and the Bankers Trust Corporation. For more inforrnation on th~.~' National Academy Foundation, please call Robin Willig at 212-420-8400, ext. 119.

For additional inforrnation on Miami Jackson's prograrn, call Darlene S~Tuth at 305-634-2621, ext. 245.

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