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Edwards gives out $300,000 in scholarships at rural N.C. school
Mike Baker
Associated Press
May 19, 2006

SNOW HILL, N.C.

Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards honored a promise Friday he made at the beginning of the school year, handing out $300,000 in scholarships to pay for the first year of college for more than 100 students at a rural high school in eastern North Carolina.

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In Greene County, an impoverished community 60 miles southeast of Raleigh, 70 percent of students receive free or reduced lunch, and an average graduating class in years past sent just a quarter of its students to college.

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This year, 80 percent of Greene Central roughly 140 seniors have applied to a post-secondary school, and 70 percent have been accepted, something that officials consider remarkable improvement _ and something they couldn't have done without Edwards' incentive.

"College for Everyone has come along with the final piece to make it happen for these students, because most of these students wouldn't have gone to college without help," said Steve Mazingo, superintendent of Greene County Schools.

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Since his failed bid two years ago as the running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, Edwards has traveled the nation advocating programs to relieve poverty while considering another run at the executive office. Edwards originally designed the "College For Everyone" program as a government initiative, but settled on establishing the Greene County project as a prototype for future efforts.

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"This is a model of what we could and should be doing for the whole country," Edwards said.


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College for Everyone

College for Everyone
An Opportunity...

We are extremely pleased to have a program for seniors at Greene Central High School who are willing to take responsibility for their education and their community. The program - College for Everyone - is the vision of former Senator John Edwards.
Under this program, the cost of in-state tuition, fees and books for the first year of college is paid by scholarships for students who meet the program’s eligibility requirements.

More info @ http://www.gcsedu.org/site_res_view_template.aspx?id=ce9d42d6-b565-4855-b851-2374be15c2d0

Transformational Change For America And The World - JOHN EDWARDS 08

"I'm proposing we set a national goal of eliminating poverty in the next 30 years." - JOHN EDWARDS 08

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. How about moving money from the defense funding so that everyone in the whole country

can have college? It can be done.

[aikoaiko]

2. Sad truth is that tuition could be free to every GA college student

at a public school, but many kids lose it because of bad grades.

We can't give away college in GA.

At my university where I teach, only 20% of the students make it graduation. 20 freaking percent.