Senate Bill sb2136

    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                      SR 2136

    By Senator Crist





    12-1294-06                                              See HB

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring Hillsborough County's

  3         2005 Award Winners of the Florida Migrant

  4         Interstate Program.

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  6         WHEREAS, the Florida Migrant Interstate Program, an

  7  entity of the Florida Department of Education, annually

  8  recognizes certain individuals for their achievements as

  9  scholars or as recruiters, teachers, or administrators, and

10         WHEREAS, among the five 2005 award winners from

11  Hillsborough County, one of the two Exemplary Migrant Scholars

12  of the Year is Erica Reynoso, 65th in a Durant High School

13  class of 512, having taken 29 honor classes, 2 advanced

14  placement classes, and 2 dual enrollment courses with

15  Hillsborough Community College while tutoring middle school

16  students and working in the strawberry fields and the local

17  supermarket, and

18         WHEREAS, Emanuel Lucas, also a Durant graduate, has

19  worked in the fields since the age of 10; is the first migrant

20  student at Durant to be President of the French Club; is the

21  first to make the varsity football team while also

22  volunteering in the community; and has been accepted to attend

23  the University of South Florida, and

24         WHEREAS, Migrant Recruiter of the Year Rogelio

25  Villanueva, of Plant City, is active with the Redlands

26  Christian Migrant Association and on several related

27  committees while collecting and making accessible to migrant

28  families information as to available resources pertinent to

29  their sustainability, and

30         WHEREAS, the Migrant Teacher/Educator of the Year is

31  Juanita Cannon, who has spent the past 27 years helping

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    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                      SR 2136
    12-1294-06                                              See HB




 1  migrant children and families gain access to medical, health,

 2  social, and academic services provided by the School District

 3  of Hillsborough County Migrant Program, and

 4         WHEREAS, Migrant Administrator of the Year Ann Cranston

 5  oversees the College Assistance Migrant Program at the

 6  University of South Florida, which provides to migratory

 7  children financial assistance toward the completion of

 8  college, NOW, THEREFORE,

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10  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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12         That the Florida Senate commends Erica Reynoso, Emanuel

13  Lucas, Rogelio Villaneuva, Juanita Cannon, and Ann Cranston

14  for their outstanding accomplishments and enthusiastically

15  endorses the recognition by the Florida Migrant Interstate

16  Program of these five extraordinary people.

17         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

18  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to each

19  award recipient as a tangible token of the sentiments of the

20  Florida Senate.

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