BALTIMORE — Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore and the National Academy Foundation High School-Baltimore have made history by opening the first student-run credit union in Baltimore.

The MECU branch is the first of its kind in a Baltimore City public school. Students will be able to deposit and withdraw funds three weekday mornings from the MECU branch in the lobby of Digital Harbor High School, in which NAF-Baltimore is located. Students from NAF-Baltimore's Academy of Finance, who will run the MECU branch, took the same two-week training course that all MECU tellers take.

"We are excited to be opening MECU's first student-run branch at the National Academy Foundation High School-Baltimore," said MECU President/CEO Bert J. Hash, Jr. "The students are so enthusiastic about this project and are committed to doing an excellent job that I see a very strong future for the credit union movement with these young people among its leaders."