San Diego
A Kearny High School business education teacher was among 15 high school and college educators across the nation who received $7,500 Thursday night from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for excellence in private enterprise education.
Thomas J. Medina was a Leavey Award recipient, endowed by the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation of Los Angeles to reward teachers who create innovative curriculums that show the workings of a free-market economy.
Medina’s course in “entreprenomics” at Kearny provides students with an alternative career option and improves understanding of economics, a required high-school course. Students learn how businesses operate, with an emphasis on studying independent owners who work for themselves.
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