Can't help you with face-to-face classroom, but I do have 3 good links links for you.
Sam Houston State in Huntsville, (100miles north of Houston so still long way from you) has very good forum on Finale. It seems a bit daunting getting INTO the correct forum, because you have to send Email commands to "majorDomo" program, but its not TOO tuff. I suggest subscribing to the "FinaleDigest" as it accumulates all the daily discussions into ONE email, rather than having your mailbox loaded with 18 or 20 emails each day. A link to take you there is: https://unxmail.shsu.edu/cgi-bin/majordomo
Another is:
https:www.shsu.edu/~mus_heh/finale/
which is a well written tutorial walking you through the basics.
The following site is a REVIEW of Finale 2002 and describes in pretty good detail some of the differences
https://home5.swipnet.se/~w-52653/Finale/Fin2002-review/finale2002.html
