{"id":278261,"date":"2026-05-20T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:23:09","slug":"the-best-of-miami-started-in-a-public-school-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278261\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of Miami Started in a Public School Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/communitynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/535A6414-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"The 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Awardees at The Education Fund\u2019s For the Love of Art Public Charity Auction and Honoree Celebration, presented by Ocean Bank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/535A6414-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"535A6414\"\/><\/a>The 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Awardees at The Education Fund\u2019s For the Love of Art Public Charity Auction and Honoree Celebration, presented by Ocean Bank<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Meet The Education Fund\u2019s 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Award honorees<\/p>\n<p>On May 18, The Education Fund presented its 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Awards during the For the Love of Art Charity Auction and Honoree Celebration, presented by Ocean Bank. The awards celebrated graduates of Miami-Dade County Public Schools who built remarkable careers, building upon the foundation of a public education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Award h=Honorees:<\/p>\n<p>Hector E. Aguililla, South Miami Senior High School | Principal, Baker Tilly<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dawn M. Baglos, North Miami Senior High School | Chief Human Capital Officer, Miami-Dade County Public Schools<\/p>\n<p>Farah Bridges, MAST Academy | Director of Litigation, Cleveland Clinic<\/p>\n<p>Ana Marie Cain, Southwest Miami Senior High School | CRA Specialist, Bradesco Bank<\/p>\n<p>David J. Clark, Miami Coral Park Senior High School | SVP of Operations, Broward Health<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carmen Concepcion, Hialeah Senior High School | Dean, School of Education, Miami Dade College<\/p>\n<p>Curtis J. Crider, South Miami Senior High School | President and CEO, Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Kaplan, North Miami Beach Senior High School | President, formerly Lawrence Factor Inc., now retired<\/p>\n<p>Yara Klukas, Southwest Miami Senior High School | First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida<\/p>\n<p>Alex Mena, Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School | Executive Editor, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald<\/p>\n<p>Grant Miller, Miami Palmetto Senior High School | Owner and Publisher, Miami\u2019s Community Newspapers<\/p>\n<p>Yolanda Nader, Hialeah Senior High School | CEO and CFO, Dosal Tobacco Corporation<\/p>\n<p>Ken O\u2019Keefe, Miami Palmetto Senior High School | Co-Founder, BPOC<\/p>\n<p>Emma Pacetti, Miami Southridge Senior High School | Executive Vice President, Grove Bank and Trust<\/p>\n<p>Karen Shosfy, Miami Palmetto Senior High School | SVP of Corporate Communications, Paramount<\/p>\n<p>Jose E. Sirven, Miami Coral Park Senior High School | Partner, Holland and Knight<\/p>\n<p>Randall Vitale, Miami Killian Senior High School | Founder and CEO, Vitale Partners<\/p>\n<p>The Education Fund congratulates all 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Award honorees and thanks every donor and supporter who makes this work possible. To learn more about The Education Fund and its programs serving Miami-Dade County public school students, visit educationfund.org.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    Connect To Your Customers &amp; Grow Your Business&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-button connect-customer-business\" href=\"https:\/\/communitynewspapers.com\/request-information\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776851487_240_Bugle-Boy.jpg\" scale=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Public School Alumni Achievement Awardees at The Education Fund\u2019s For the Love of Art Public Charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-278261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}