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Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske Salutes LBUSD, LBCC, &CSULB On Working Together On Long Beach College Promise
Long Beach partnership to continue to make higher education a #1 Priority
(LONG BEACH, CA; March 19, 2012) – Former Long
Beach City College Trustee and current Long Beach City Councilwoman Gerrie
Schipske today saluted the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), Long
Beach City College (LBCC), and California State University at Long Beach,
(CSULB) on the third year anniversary of their joint effort to provide every
Long Beach student the “Long Beach
College Promise.”
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“Despite the financial difficulties facing our
three education institutions, they are pledging to double their efforts as they
begin the third year of this program to ensure every student in Long Beach who
wants to go to college, can,” says Schipske, who also teaches part-time at
CSULB. “They are to be commended for their efforts to continue to make higher
education a top priority in Long Beach.”
All three educational institutions are working
together to improve
college preparation, access and completion for members of the greater Long
Beach community. The Long Beach College Promise is combination of financial
rewards (a semester of free community college tuition) and admission
preferences for Long Beach Unified students, college education classes for
parents, and college preparation courses for Long Beach Unified seniors.
Schipske points out that the Long Beach College
Promise came from the Long Beach Seamless Education Partnership that was launched in
1994 when she was President of the Long Beach Community College Board of
Trustees. “The Partnership was established to ensure that all students would
progress smoothly through the education systems and into the workforce.”
“This concept came from the community through variety of efforts, including the School to
Work Transition Project that helped identify what was needed for students to be
able to complete their schooling and to be prepared to become teachers in the
Long Beach Unified School District,” Schipske adds.
