[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12096]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                  CONGRATULATING RIVERDALE HIGH SCHOOL

 Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I ask my colleagues to join me in 
congratulating Riverdale High School, a school in West Fresno County 
with an enrollment of 540 students, for earning the prestigious College 
Board Inspiration Award. Riverdale High School is the first California 
school to receive the College Board Inspiration Award in 5 years.
  Each year, the College Board presents Inspiration Awards to three 
secondary schools nationwide in recognition of their college 
preparation programs and the partnerships among the schools' teachers, 
parents, and community organizations that foster students' academic 
achievements and advancement.
  Riverdale High School has consistently strived to provide its 
students with a challenging and rigorous curriculum. Despite its 
location in a traditionally underserved portion of the San Joaquin 
Valley in central California, Riverdale High School, where 76 percent 
of the students receive free or reduced lunches and 38 percent of its 
student body is comprised of migrant students, is an all college 
preparatory high school that offers 12 advance placement and honors 
classes. Riverdale High School's 2008 graduating class produced a 91 
percent acceptance rate to a 2 or 4-year college. The school has 
averaged an impressive 98 percent graduation rate over the past 3 
years.
  As the administrators, teachers, parents, and students of Riverdale 
High School gather to celebrate this outstanding and well-deserved 
achievement, I thank them for their commitment to education and 
academic excellence and wish them continued success.

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