At this evening’s Brevard Public School Board meeting, District 3 School Board Member Jennifer Jenkins recognized a beautiful and brilliant young lady.
Lorend Rosario, a 4th grader at Palm Bay Elementary, was awarded a 2 year college scholarship by Florida Tax Watch.


Her principal, Mike Mahl was the winner of this year’s Florida Tax Watch’s Principal Leadership Award



Florida TaxWatch, a nonprofit, established the Principal Leadership Awards program in 2014 to identify Florida’s most effective principals in high-risk K-12 public schools, recognize and reward their work, and promote their transformational practices throughout the state. The goal of the program is to improve student achievement in high-risk schools, thereby closing the achievement gap.