[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MICHAEL ANTHONY SOLIS

  (Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in the 
memory of Mr. Michael Anthony Solis, who was an educator. He taught at 
Anaheim High School in my district. He was a champion for lower income 
students.
  He grew up in Riverside, California, and his family grew up in pretty 
poor circumstances, but education was always important to them. He 
enrolled in Riverside Community College where teachers encouraged him 
to be an educator. As a student teacher, Michael became involved with 
the AVID program, a program that helps to close that achievement gap 
from lower income students to the normal. Mr. Solis went on to teach 
AVID in various southern California schools. He was also the director 
of AVID for our county education program. He most recently served as 
our assistant principal at Anaheim High School.
  He was impassioned about education. He knew that this would make a 
difference in so many people's lives. Even though he lost a 40-month 
battle with cancer, he will be remembered by all who knew him, and his 
legacy will move forward in all of those students whose lives he has 
impacted.

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