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Middle school to help students with high school credits

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI

West Valley View Executive Editor

Avondale Elementary School District has added a program to help middle school students participate in a fast-track high school program starting in August.

The dual immersion program will expand to include high school offerings to the incoming seventh-grade class. Students from AESD will participate in high school courses in algebra, band, chorus and Spanish at the Feeder School District, Agua Fria Union High School District.

Students can earn high school credit before their time in high school begins. Through the collaboration between AESD and AFUHSD, scholars will be transported weekly to the high school campuses to engage in the enhanced course offerings.

AESD has been providing fast-track opportunities in algebra, band and choir for multiple years and has added Spanish to the list, due to the effectiveness of the collaboration between the two districts and the impact on students’ academic success.

“Our students get enhanced learning opportunities and get a powerful introduction to the high school staff and schools while still in middle school,” said Dr. Betsy Hargrove, AESD superintendent.

“Students are set up for success in their high school years and build confidence connections to teachers and peers in high school.”

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es after hosting virtual events due to COVID-19 the past two semesters. Know a student who’s doing something remarkable? Tell us about it! Email Christina Fuoco-Karasinski at christina@westvalleyview.com. Kayla Laguerre-Lewis and Omar Laguerre-Lewis, both of Litchfield Park, made the fall dean’s list, at the Ryan Brown of Goodyear earned a ited, coeducational university located University of Rhode Island in KingsMaster of Science from the office of in Seward, Nebraska, and serves more ton, Rhode Island. To be included on graduate studies at University of Ne- than 2,500 students. the dean’s list, full-time students must braska-Lincoln. The graduates are have completed 12 or more credits for from 58 countries, 43 states and the Eric Williams of Goodyear has grad- letter grades during a semester and District of Columbia, and more than uated from McKendree University in achieved at least a 3.30 quality point 250 Nebraska communities. Lebanon, Illinois, with an MBA degree average. Part-time students qualify in business administration. The McK- with the accumulation of 12 or more Maria Googins of Goodyear earned a endree University Class of 2021 hails credits for letter grades earning at least M.Ed. from Concordia University, Ne- from 29 states and 15 countries. a 3.30 quality point average. braska. Concordia University, Nebraska, founded in 1894, is a fully accred- Jacob Jefferson of Buckeye earned a Bachelor of Arts from Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska, during in-person commencement exercisTimothy Houlihan of Litchfield Park was named to the Biola University dean’s list for academic excellence. BU is in La Mirada, California. Biola

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students are placed on the dean’s list to honor those with a GPA of 3.6 or higher while enrolled in 12 or more credits and whose cumulative GPA is at least 3.2.

Tiffani Sollars of Litchfield Park, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Florham Campus in Madison, New Jersey, has been named to the dean’s list for the Fall 2020 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, a student must carry a 3.2 or better grade point average out of a possible 4.0 and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours (four courses).

Anisa Jones of Goodyear made the honor roll for academic achievement during the fall semester. Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri, recently recognized 119 students on its honor roll. Students on the honor roll have earned between a 3.2 and 3.49 grade point average and were enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours with no grade lower than a C.

Anngelyque Stevenson of Litchfield Park earned a Master of Science in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Stevenson was among approximately 4,435 undergraduate and graduate students who earned their degrees during the spring 2021 semester and were recognized during the institute’s 260th commencement exercises.