The entire third grade class at a Phoenix elementary school is receiving a full-ride scholarship to college. On Monday, Bernard Black Elementary School in Phoenix invited all the third grade students and their parents to an assembly on campus. Nothing was said about what the assembly was for and many of the parents assumed it was an award ceremony of some kind.
At the assembly, Roosevelt School District Superintendent Quintin Boyce announced that all 63 of the third-graders would be eligible for a full-ride college scholarship. The scholarships are part of a program from the Rosztoczy [[Rose-toe-see]] Foundation called “College Promise,” and will pay for tuition, books, and room and board. “The goal, through the generous offer of this family, is that finances will not be the barrier,” Boyce says. “That college is an option for every third grader right here.”
To qualify for the program, the students will have to graduate from an area high school and attend a state university in Arizona. The Rosztoczy Foundation is the legacy of Hungarian-American scientist and businessman Ferenc Rosztoczy, who owned several successful Phoenix businesses. And this wasn’t the first time the foundation pledged to pay for college for an entire area school grade. The same promise was made to 80 third-graders at a nearby school in 2012.
Source: 12 News