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26 MAPCS Evans Students Selected to Receive D.C. Achievers Scholarships
MAPCS-EVANS Students receive awards at First D.C. Achievers Ceremony with staff & family joining in the celebration. |
On June 9, 2007, 26 MAPCS-Evans eleventh graders were officially announced among 201 DC Achievers Scholarship recipients. The ceremony, at the Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus in Ward 8, was the culmination of a dream-come-true for rising high school seniors; now they are entitled to receive up to $50,000 per student toward their college application. Successful applicants worked closely with staff and other supporters to complete the application and qualify to participate in the yearlong college-readiness program.
The D.C. Achievers Program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is administered by the D.C. College Success Foundation – a nonprofit group that helps students get into college. We were thrilled that our MAPCS-Evans campus was selected as one of six local participating high schools in Ward 7 or 8 of the District of Columbia. The scholarships were designed to help remove financial barriers to higher education as well as to provide academic support for young people by providing new opportunities for these students to succeed in college and beyond. Students were selected after completing an extensive application process and meeting family income requirements.
MAPCS-Evans student and scholarship recipient Kevin Jones, 17 was quoted in the Washington Post as a part of this announcement saying, “[He] wasn’t thinking about college before…it’s like a door opened and this is a first step to success.” Jones has plans to study writing in college, perhaps on the West Coast. Dr. Nataki Reynolds, his principal echoed the students sentiment and added that, “Having 26 students from the Maya Angelou Public Charter School’s Evans campus is an important milestone that represents the hard work, tenacity and talent of our students.” |
