[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 75 (Thursday, June 15, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S5238]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         NATIONAL SERVICE--LEARNING LEADER SCHOOL AWARD WINNERS

 Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, the Corporation for National 
Service recently announced the winners of the second annual National 
Service--Learning Leader Schools Program, a Presidential Award that 
recognizes schools for excellence in service-learning.
  Learn and Serve America, one of the three national service programs 
of the Corporation for National Service, is sponsoring the Leader 
Schools initiative. In its second year, the Leader Schools program is 
honoring 34 middle schools and 32 high schools in 31 states for 
thoughtfully and effectively combining academic subjects with community 
service in a way that benefits students, teaches civic responsibility, 
and strengthens communities.
  Service-learning is expanding in the United States. The Department of 
Education found that in 1984, only 27 percent of all high schools had 
school-sponsored community service projects and only 9 percent offered 
service-learning. By the 1998-99 school year, those numbers rose to a 
remarkable 83 percent and 46 percent, respectively.
  Three schools in Massachusetts--Wareham High School and Wareham 
Middle School in Wareham and Tantasqua Regional Junior High School in 
Fiskdale have been leaders in our state on service-learning and were 
honored as National Service Learning Leader Schools this year. I 
commend each of these schools for the important work they have 
accomplished in making community service an integral part of school 
life. These schools are impressive models for Massachusetts and for the 
nation.
  The Leader Schools program is not simply an awards program. The 
schools being honored are making a two year commitment to assist other 
schools through mentoring and coaching, thereby contributing to the 
spread of service-learning throughout the country.
  The Corporation for National Service also administers AmeriCorps, the 
domestic Peace Corps that is engaging Americans in extensive, service 
activities in this country. In addition, the Corporation administers 
the National Senior Service Corps which enables nearly half a million 
Americans age fifty-five and older to share their time and talents to 
help solve local problems.
  All of these outstanding programs are achieving great success under 
the strong leadership of our former colleague in the Senate, Harris 
Wofford, the chief executive officer of the Corporation.
  The sixty-six Leader Schools will be honored in a ceremony at the 
Kennedy Center this week. These schools are true leaders in education 
reform. I commend them for their academic achievements and their 
contributions to our country through community service, and I ask the 
list of the Leader Schools may be printed in the Record.

             2000 National Service--Learning Leader Schools

       Academy for Science and Foreign Language, Huntsville, AL; 
     Eureka Senior High School, Eureka, CA; Irvington High School, 
     Fremont, CA; Howard High School of Technology, Wilmington, 
     DE; Wakulla Middle School, Crawfordville, FL; Neptune Middle 
     School, Kissimmee, FL; Bay High School, Panama City, FL; 
     Taylor County High School, Perry, FL; Carol Shores High 
     School, Tavernier, FL; Waiakea High School, Hilo, HI; Punahou 
     School, Honolulu, HI; President George Washington Middle 
     School, Honolulu, HI; Bettendorf High School, Bettendorf, IA; 
     Resurrection High School, Chicago, IL; Field Middle School, 
     Northbrook, IL, Paoli Senior High School, Paoli, IN; Warren 
     Central High School, Bowling Green, KY; North Laurel Middle 
     School, London, KY; East Jessamine Middle School, 
     Nicholasville, KY; Tantasqua Regional Jr. High School, 
     Fiskdale, MA; Wareham High School, Wareham, MA; Wareham 
     Middle School, Wareham, MA;
       Phillips Middle School, Phillips, ME; Lahser High School, 
     Bloomfield Hills, MI; Romulus High School, Romulus, MI; 
     Fulton Academy, Fulton, MO; Tupelo Middle School, Tupelo, MS; 
     Chief Joseph Middle School, Bozeman, MT; Lewistown Junior 
     High School, Lewistown, MT; Ramsey Street Alternative Middle 
     School, Fayetteville, NC; Ferndale Middle School, Highpoint, 
     NC; Piedmont High School, Monroe, NC; Woodbury Middle School, 
     Salem, NH; Woodsville High School, Woodsville, NH; Cranford 
     High School, Cranford, NJ; Academy of the Holy Angels, 
     Demarest, NJ; Terence C. Reilly Middle School, Elizabeth, NJ; 
     Delsea Regional Middle School, Franklinville, NJ; Hoboken 
     Charter School, Hoboken, NJ; John F. Kennedy Memorial High 
     School, Iselin, NJ; Linden High School, Linden, NJ; 
     Opportunity School, Reno, NV; Scotia-Glenville Junior High 
     School, Scotia, NY;
       W.T. Clarke Middle School, Westbury, NY; Russell F. Hobart 
     Middle School, Painesville, OH; Hastings Middle School, Upper 
     Arlington, OH; Jones Middle School, Upper Arlington, OH; The 
     Environmental Middle School, Portland, OR; Tillamook Junior 
     High School, Tillamook, OR; Lamberton Middle School, 
     Carlisle, PA; Parkway West Alternative Center for Education, 
     Oakdale, PA; Feinstein High School for Public Service, 
     Providence, RI; D.R. Hill Middle School, Duncan, SC; 
     Britton's Neck High School, Gresham, SC; Pickens Middle 
     School, Pickens, SC; Wren Middle School, Piedmont, SC; Camp 
     Creek School, Greeneville, TN; Harpeth Hall School, 
     Nashville, TN; Quest High School, Humble, TX; Weatherford 
     High School, Weatherford, TX; Box Elder Community High 
     School, Brigham City, UT; Evergreen Junior High, Salt Lake 
     City, UT; William E. Waters Middle School, Portsmouth, VA; 
     River Bluff Middle School, Stoughton, WI; WVDE at Davis 
     Stuart School, Lewisburg, WV; Morgantown High School, 
     Morgantown, WV.

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