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Senior Signing Day Should Be A National Holiday

May 02, 2011 by Mark DiBella

I have decided to make it official. Senior Signing Day is now a national holiday. I haven’t actually gotten this approved by anyone but I have emailed the President, so I’ll let you know when I find out more. Given that I look forward to SSD more than my own birthday, I’ve decided it needs to take its place as a fully recognized holiday. In fact, as I was heading to SSD on Friday, I started making a list of my favorite days every year. It was crazy to realize that next to Christmas and Thanksgiving, SSD is arguably my favorite day of the year. Of course, the last day of school is a close 4th.

For those of you that have never attended a Senior Signing Day, you should put next year's event on your calendar.  Senior Signing Day started as a way to honor our graduating seniors for the

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YES Prep Ranks in the Top Ten of Houston Chronicle’s Annual School Report Card

April 18, 2011 by Chris Barbic

Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle and Children at Risk released their annual School Report Card. We were thrilled to see that YES Prep Southeast was once again ranked a top ten high school in Houston, placing sixth on the list. YES Prep has been ranked on this list ever since Children At Risk and the Houston Chronicle first teamed up to create it. Starting last year, the rankings also began including the top middle schools in Houston. ALL of our eligible campuses ranked in the top 25—on a list that includes over 265 area schools. We were particularly excited to see our YES Prep Southwest campus ranked 5th on this list. As the national debate about public education and charter schools continues, we were also pleased to see that four of the top ten schools on the list were state and

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Former Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales to Speak at Senior Signing Day

April 12, 2011 by Chris Barbic

We just confirmed that Alberto Gonzales will be delivering this year’s keynote remarks to our seniors at our Senior Signing Day Celebration being held at Rice University’s Tudor Field House on Friday, April 29, 2011. This year promises to be a great one . . . we will have THREE classes of seniors announcing their college plans.

Alberto Gonzalez is a native Houstonian who grew up poor on the Northside, graduated from Rice University, and went on to hold a cabinet level position in President’s Bush’s (43rd) Adminsitration. He will continue the great tradition we established last year in having Education Secretary Arne Duncan as our first-ever SSD speaker. One side note is that General Gonzales actually has spoken and addressed the seniors this past fall during the Senior Summit event

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The Strong Should Support the Weak: YES Prep continues its tradition of riding the MS 150 Bike Race

April 11, 2011 by Jeremy Jones

Friends and Family –

THE TRADITION CONTINUES!... 2011 MS150! First of all, I would like to thank all of you who donated to the cause last year. Thanks to you, I was able to give $2000 to the MS Society. Of course, we are back at it again... THE MS150 RIDE to Austin! This is my 11th year riding! Every year has been such an experience-- the cause, the people, the ride. If you can help out in anyway with a donation of any amount, you can feel rest assured that you will be helping thousands of people.

On Saturday and Sunday, April 16 - 17, 2011, I will be joining over 13,000 other cyclists riding 180 miles from Houston to Austin in the annual BP MS 150 Bike Tour. The tour is a charity fundraising event supporting the National MS Society's fight against multiple sclerosis. Not only will

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YP Brays Oaks Visits University of Houston for It’s Second Model United Nations Competition

April 08, 2011 by Sarah Straub

March 30, 2011 is a day that should go down in YES Prep history.  Twelve students from YES Prep Brays Oaks’ campus travelled to the University of Houston to participate in their second Model UN competition. Representing Spain, Argentina, India and Qatar, these students have given up their Fridays for the past couple of months in anticipation of this competition. These students also had the privilege to hear from the Honorable Donna M. Blair, Minister Counselor of the Senior Foreign Service. She has served as Consul General in Nigeria, Mexico, Kenya, Venezuela, Ghana, Spain, Argentina and Hong Kong. She has worked in the State Department in the Bureau of African Affairs, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the Bureau of Human Resources. She spoke about the opportunities that

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