Pace In the News
Please see how Pace Center for Girls is changing the lives of girls and young women through advocacy, partnerships, programs, and more in the many stories shared and published in the media.
Pace Center for Girls in Lee County is celebrating four of its members who are graduating high school.
Pace Center for Girls, Clay, celebrated one of its largest graduating classes in the program’s history.
Graduation happens at Pace Center for Girls in Leon County at the end of May and a grant given to the center by State Farm will help graduates move on to the next steps of their lives.
This partnership provides a proactive solution to the teacher shortage affecting the nation by creating a direct pipeline from MDC’s School of Education to teaching positions at Pace Center for Girls’ 21 centers, ensuring a steady flow of well-prepared educators across Florida. College-level credit courses will also be available for certificate renewal or academic endorsement, reflected on official transcripts.
Pace Center for Girls received a $100,000 grant from State Farm Insurance to support career and college preparation. The funding supports Pace’s comprehensive vocational and education program dedicated to providing girls, who have faced adversity, with the necessary tools to obtain a high school diploma or GED, long term employability skills and to pursue an education past high school, whether at a professional training program, the military, a community college or a four-year college or university.