Bill Text: TX HR1176 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Sellers Middle School in Garland on earning designation as an AVID National Demonstration School.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-22 - Reported enrolled [HR1176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR1176-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 1176 |
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WHEREAS, Sellers Middle School in the Garland Independent | ||
School District earned designation as an AVID National | ||
Demonstration School in January 2013, marking the third time the | ||
institution has secured this distinction; and | ||
WHEREAS, Advanced Via Individual Determination, or AVID, is a | ||
college readiness program designed to increase the academic | ||
performance of underserved students and make college enrollment | ||
more attainable; with the support of the school's faculty members, | ||
participants learn organizational and study skills and practice | ||
critical thinking, and they are required to take at least one | ||
honors, pre-AP, or AP course; students also receive academic | ||
assistance from their peers and college tutors; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 2003, with a $25,000 grant from the BEST | ||
Education Foundation, Sellers Middle School became the first | ||
Garland ISD campus to employ the AVID program, and in 2007, and | ||
again in 2010, it was named an AVID National Demonstration School; | ||
the initiative was started by former principal Janice Howard, now | ||
the AVID director for the district, who noticed that very few | ||
minority learners took advanced placement classes; over the years, | ||
Sellers implemented the program schoolwide, and today AVID | ||
strategies are applied in every classroom; and | ||
WHEREAS, Expansion to other campuses has also followed, with | ||
AVID currently part of the curriculum at 14 other Garland ISD | ||
schools; less than two percent of AVID institutions are recognized | ||
as National Demonstration Schools, however, and Sellers is one of | ||
just 19 such sites in the entire state; the exemplary results at | ||
Sellers have served as a model for AVID programs in other Texas | ||
cities as well as for schools in Minnesota, Florida, and | ||
California; and | ||
WHEREAS, Sellers Middle School has demonstrated an | ||
outstanding commitment to academic excellence and college | ||
readiness, and its accomplishments are making a positive and | ||
lasting difference in the lives of countless Garland students; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby congratulate Sellers Middle School on earning | ||
designation as an AVID National Demonstration School for the third | ||
time and extend to its students, faculty, and staff sincere best | ||
wishes for continued success; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for the school as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
House of Representatives. | ||
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______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 1176 was adopted by the House on April | ||
17, 2013, by a non-record vote. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||