New Superintendent to Participate in Project GRAD Walk for Success
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Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m.-noon Locations: Ninth Grade College Preparatory Academy, and Davis, Reagan, Wheatley, and Yates High Schools Contact: 832-325-0467 for more information |
On the morning of October 24, 2009, approximately 2,000 volunteers will visit close to 3,000 homes of Houston’s inner-city students. This annual event is called Walk for Success and is hosted each year by Project GRAD Houston in cooperation with HISD and Communities In Schools. The purpose of the walk is to let parents know that their child attends an HISD school that offers the GRAD scholarship and to share the important message, “You CAN go to college!”
Walk participants will include new HISD Superintendent of Schools Terry B. Grier, who will join Project GRAD-Houston Founder and Chairman James L. Ketelsen, U. S. Department of Education Regional Representative Patricia Crisp and new University of Houston–Downtown President William Flores at Jefferson Davis High School to participate in the 21st annual door-to-door campaign targeting the homes of ninth-grade students. Volunteers will also visit the homes of ninth-graders attending the Ninth Grade College Preparatory Academy, John H. Reagan High School, Phillis Wheatley High School, and Jack Yates High School.
During these visits, students and their parents will be asked to sign a “Scholarship Agreement” that will make the student eligible for the $4,000 non-competitive scholarship when they: (a) graduate in four years or less with at least a 2.5 GPA, and (b) attend two GRAD-sponsored college institutes during their high-school tenure. Project GRAD-Houston has offered over $16 million in college scholarships to over 4,000 HISD students since its inception in 1994.
To volunteer, or for more information, please visit the Project GRAD Web site or call 832-325-0467.
