Twenty-one Atlanta Public Schools students have been awarded 2011 Gates Millennium Scholarships – the second highest number of any school district in the nation.
The scholarship covers the cost of tuition, room and board at any university, for any major, both for undergraduate work as well as some advanced degrees. It is administered by the United Negro College Fund, which annually awards the scholarship to 1,000 students nationwide.
In APS, recipients included: Frederica Lamar of Benjamin E. Mays High; Shaquitta Bell, Marshanae Davis, Crystal Harris, Taylor Hart, Elizabeth Jenkins and Malina Moses of Booker T. Washington Senior Academy; Paul Harris Jr. of Carver Early College; Marquis Bell, Shontel Coleman, Gregory Stalls, Elisha Pittman and Keiana Raven of Carver School of Health Sciences & Research; Jeremy Hughes, Ebony Reid and Vivian Stepp of Frederick Douglass High; Zicuria Ussery of Maynard Jackson High; Mishka Moncrieffe of North Atlanta High; and Teanna Glass, Glenisha Smith and Raven Tukes of South Atlanta School of Law & Social Justice.
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