MSU Selected for REACH Program
Rewarding Achievement (REACH), a program of the Council of Urban Professionals and the Pershing Square Foundation, seeks to augment the efforts of low-income high school students and their schools to enroll and excel in the most rigorous courses possible. To encourage students, especially those from ethnic and racial groups that are underrepresented in higher education, to step up to challenging academics and to reward dynamism and innovation in our schools, REACH will make substantial cash awards, based on the number of Advanced Placement exams passed, to selected schools and their students, principals, assistant principals and AP teachers.
Because of Mount St. Ursula's overall demographics and its long-term participation and strong performance on the AP exams, the school has been chosen as one of six private schools to be part of this new endeavor. There are a total of 31 schools (25 public and 6 parochial) in the program. This trial experience will serve as a way to commend Mount St. Ursula's AP teachers and reward outstanding students for their hard work and achievement.
Principal Sr. Mary Beth Read, OSU says she is "excited about the prospect of adding what will be a mini-scholarship award to the intrinsic satisfaction of learning. Our teachers are superb and we look forward to recognizing them also in this special way. Our young women have already proven very successful in the AP Program and this incentive may increase those results."