FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 07, 2003
CONTACT: LINDA MACIAS/PAUL TODD (202) 225-6161
Baca to deliver keynote address at UCR Parent Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Joe Baca (D-Rialto) will discuss
the critical role that parents and families play in teaching
educationally and economically disadvantaged children the importance
of higher education this Saturday, March 8, 2003 at the University of
California, Riverside (UCR). Baca has been scheduled to deliver the
keynote address at the University’s Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP)
12th Annual Parent Conference entitled “Education: A Family Affair” at
9:20 a.m.
Baca has been a long time supporter of increasing access to education
for underrepresented and underserved children in the Inland Empire and
across America. He has supported full funding of the No Child Left
Behind Act, increased funding for remedial education, improving
bilingual education programs, and maintaining vital assistance
programs such as the Perkins Loan Program. Most recently, Baca
introduced legislation aimed at promoting nursing as a career to
segments of the population currently underrepresented in the
profession by offering scholarships to minorities and men who chose to
attend nursing school.
The goal of the EAOP Annual Conference is to convey to middle and high
school students and their parents the importance of early preperation
for college, the role that parents can play, and the impacts on
children and society when they do not prepare for higher education.
“Parents have the responsibility to push and teach their children to
attend college, trade school, or some other form of higher education
beyond grade school,” Baca said. “Our economy and our future depend on
our children.”
“Education is the key to achieving peace and prosperity in our
community, in our nation, and across our troubled globe. Perhaps more
than ever, they need to know that their families are there for them to
guide them along as they begin to face the challenges that lay ahead
for them.”
Who: Congressman Joe Baca, The Early Academic Outreach
Program (EAOP) at the University of California, Riverside.
What: 12th Annual Parent Conference: “Education: A
Family Affair”
When: Saturday, March 8, 2003 at 9:20 a.m.
Where: University of California, Riverside Gymnasium
Contact: Jesse Valenzuela in Congressman Baca’s office at (909)
885-2222
