Education

College scholarships are provided to qualifying students graduating from Hoover High School and the Aaron Price Fellows Program.

The Effron Scholarship Program
The Effron Scholarship Program at Hoover High School was established in memory of Helen and Sol Price's nephew, Stephen Effron, who had attended Hoover High School. Scholarship applicants are eligible for either a $20,000 scholarship to a four year college or university funded at $4,000 per year for five years or $2,000 for a two year scholarship to a community college, trade or vocational school.

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Jesus Morales Scholarships
The Jesus Morales Memorial Scholarship Program at Hoover High School provides scholarships to Hispanic students for either four year universities or community colleges.

Aaron Price Fellows Scholarships
Aaron Price Fellows Scholarships are awarded to Aaron Price Fellows based on community service performed during their senior year of high school. Scholarships may be applied to either a four year college or university or to a community college.

Price Charities supports music education at Rosa Parks Elementary, Monroe Clark Middle and Hoover High.  

Funds are used to purchase instruments, to support music coaches and for students to attend music competition events.

For further information contact Ann Bossler at abossler@pricecharities.org.

“FACES for the Future” is a health profession internship partnership with Rady Children’s Hospital to encourage Hoover High School students to become interested in a health profession.

Price Charities and the Hervey Foundation fund the program and San Diego Rady Children's Hospital operates it. Students perform their internships at the hospital in coordination with their course work at Hoover High. The goals of the program are for students to become interested in health care careers and to continue their education at a college or university.

For further information contact Dorothy Zirkle at dzirkle@pricecharities.org.

Price Charities provides funding for a pilot program at Rosa Parks Elementary aimed at improving preschool student’s language skills. The goal is to prepare the students to be ready to learn the first day they walk into Kindergarten.

The program is administered by San Diego State University through the City Heights Educational Collaborative and includes English language learners, kids from low income families, and kids with speech and language disorders.

The program focuses on experiential play, which encourages kids to act out the words they are using. Props and activities are used to expose the children to places and things they’ve never experienced. To reinforce classroom activities, the program hosts family nights where parents are invited to play with their children under the supervision of program administrators. Parents learn activities to expand their children’s vocabulary.

The program is under evaluation using control and focus groups to determine what effects the activities have on increasing language skills.

Cardinals Interact is a partnership between Price Charities and Downtown San Diego Rotary Club to support a mentoring program for Hoover High School students grades ten through twelve.

The name comes from Hoover’s mascot, the Cardinal. Interact is Rotary's high school community service program.

There are approximately 120 Hoover High students who participate at any one time in the three year mentoring and tutoring program. Much of the program experience is modeled on the Aaron Price Fellows Program including camp and visits to San Diego businesses, non-profits and government institutions. Students are able to experience a variety of programs along with ongoing one on one mentoring and tutoring. One of the major challenges at Hoover High School is a low graduation rate. The program has been successful at helping many of its participants graduate from high school and attend college. Those who do and complete the program are awarded a $1,000 or $1,500 scholarship.

A program designed to enrich student achievement for Rosa Parks and Hamilton Elementary School students through experiential learning at Balboa Park museums.

School in the Park is an experiential learning program for elementary school children that shift the classroom from City Heights to museums and the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park. Children in grades three through five at Rosa Parks and Hamilton Elementary Schools spend five or six weeks per year learning in a stimulating environment of museum galleries and Zoo exhibits. Museum educators working with school teachers provide instruction by using the resources of the various Balboa Park institutions.

The School in the Park goals are:

1. Enrich student educational experiences thereby motivating and inspiring students to want to learn
2. Enhance student achievement
3. Enhance self esteem and self confidence through cultural experiences
4. Support education departments at Balboa Park institutions

Price Charities pays participating Balboa Park institutions $12 per student per attendance day. All School in the Park curriculum is “standards based.” Curriculum developed by School in the Park is often used for other educational programs sponsored by the museums and the Zoo.

As a continuation of the School in the Park program, Price Charities funds an experiential learning program for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Monroe Clark Middle School. This program creates the opportunity for the San Diego Zoo, Salk Institute, Rueben H. Fleet Science Center, Birch Aquarium and Aquatic Adventures to bring their expertise into the classroom and provide an experiential outing in which students travel to these science institutions for an in depth inquiry into grade level appropriate and standards based content. The goal of this program is for science to come alive for students in a real world setting.

The City Heights Educational Collaborative is a partnership between San Diego State University (SDSU), the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD), the San Diego Education Association (SDEA), and Price Charities to improve educational outcomes at Rosa Parks Elementary, Monroe Clark Middle, and Hoover High.

Students from SDSU's College of Education and College of Health and Human Services perform internships at the three schools and SDSU faculty uses the schools for research in urban education.

SDSU employs an executive director for the Collaborative who serves in many respects as an assistant school superintendent. Funding is provided by Price Charities and SDSU. SDUSD and SDEA support the Collaborative by cooperating in achieving the Collaborative's objectives.

The primary objectives of the Collaborative are:

• Significantly improve student achievement
• Prepare educators and other professionals to effectively serve in inner-city schools
• Enlist the research skills of SDSU to improve urban education practice

For further information contact Executive Director Tim Allen: tallen@mail.sdsu.edu.

The Urban Education Dialogue brings together superintendents from California urban schools three times a year to share best practices, generate creative ideas, and improve education policy. (more)

Typically, 10-15 superintendents attend the two day dialogue and share ideas and concerns in an open forum. Topics are selected in advance by the Dialogue facilitator. Each meeting features at least one guest speaker who presents research findings or new ideas based on input from the superintendents related to urban education.

The goals of the dialogue are:

• For superintendents to share best practices
• To promote creative thinking about issues of common concern
• To use the collective energy of superintendents to improve education policy

For further information contact Gloria Johnston at glojohnston@gmail.com.

Success for Life is a program that helps kindergarten and first grade parents and teachers at Florence Griffith-Joyner, Central and Hamilton Elementary Schools incorporate learning activities at home that reinforces curriculum taught at school.

Every trimester throughout the school year, kindergarten and first grade parents have breakfast or dinner before attending workshops where parents are coached on using learning activities to take and support their children at home. The books and educational materials received at the workshops coincide with the curriculum taught in the classrooms. The teachers at each school work closely with the Success for Life staff to recommend the topics for the workshop activities throughout the year. First grade parents have been included as a follow up to the kindergarten program to continue to support families as they establish routines and participate in school activities so that their children will have a successful and strong foundation on which to build learning throughout their education.

For further information contact Cecilia Estrada at cestrada@pricecharities.org.