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LBUSD Seniors Receive $250K In College Scholarships by Ryan ZumMallen | Archive | 06.04.09 |
+  CSULB President F. King Alexander speaks as scholarship winners look on. Photo by Ryan ZumMallen Mayor Bob Foster, “These scholarship will dramatically improve the fabric of our society. Thank you to all the teachers and administrators for instilling a lifetime of achievement in our youth.”  Mayor Foster speaks. Photo by Ryan ZumMallenLong Beach students received the scholarships because the district was a 2008 finalist for the Broad Prize for Urban Education, the nation’s largest education award honoring large urban districts that have demonstrated the greatest overall achievement and improvement in the nation, while reducing achievements gaps among income and ethnic groups. “This school district does not sit still,” said President Alexander, who said he was very proud to be the father of three children in the LBUSD system. Students planning on attending four-year institutions received $20,000 that will be dispersed over a four year period of time and students planning on attending community colleges or trade school will be receiving $5,000. “We are proud to support Broad Prize scholars in Long Beach as they go on the college and careers,” said Eli Broad, founder of The Broad Foundation, in a press relase. “Long Beach – which remains one of the top urban districts in the country – has prepared them with the tools they need to succeed academically in college, and we hope these scholarships will further help them stay the course.” Stay turned to find out if Long Beach Unified District wins $1 million on September 16, announced by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The complete list of winners is below: Diana Rodriguez (Cabrillo) Bryan Chiem (Lakewood) Abelardo Gutierrez (Poly) Francia Bienvenue (Poly) Grady Vanhooser (Poly) Jennifer Chrin (Poly) Khatina Mann (Poly) Mindy Huynh (Poly) Steven Sar (Poly) Ines Arredondo (Renaissance) Tanya Tran (Renaissance) Jaden Netwig (Millikan) Allison Cook (Wilson) Jessica Martin (Wilson) Sayuri Blanquel (Wilson)  LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser speaks. Photo by Ryan ZumMallen Ricklyn Hukriede is a current LBCC journalism student and current contributing news reporter for the LBPOST.com. Disclosure: LBCC spokesperson Mark Taylor is a columnist for the LBPOST.com. Follow the LBPOST.com on our Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages.
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Alix Congratulations to all the scholarship recipients -- and to all the Long Beach Unified teachers and administrators that helped to make this happen! FYI, the Secretary of Education's name is Arne Duncan not Anne Duncan. Ryan Z Whoops! Thanks for the fix! brain knee Please teach your photog about microphone mergers. Nice article and great job scholars. Kamea Maybe next time there will be more of an effort to disburse the scholarship money among a much more diverse group of students. Or the LBUSD can simply continue to provide the students whom they should be serving equally with disproportionate opportunities. Abe I was one of the recipients of the scholarship this year, and I was blown away, since the actual amount had been sort of amorphous, and we didn't actually know we had won anything until that day. I don't understand what the poster above me means by a more diverse group. As you can see, there was a vast variety of ethnicities represented there, and if their are any missing, that's simply because they didn't make the cut with respect to what the foundation was looking for in it's scholars: improvement over time.
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