Good Morning America highlights President’s visit
Kalamazoo Central High School was named winner of the first Race to the Top Commencement Challenge nearly 10 months ago, but the positive buzz just keeps coming.
This time ABC’s Good Morning America featured the school in a story about this year’s competition and showed clips of President Barak Obama delivering the commencement address in 2010.
Excerpt:
“I know and America knows what you have done at Kalamazoo Central. You are amazing.” (President Obama)
Kalamazoo Central competed with 1,000 other schools to win the challenge that is intended to be a way to encourage more young people to attend college.
Check out the segment for more about Kalamazoo Central’s win and a preview of this year’s challenge.
Source: ABC News
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