The Choice Bus visits Midfield High School
Green Acres Middle School students will receive a firsthand look at what education can bring – at least $1 million over a person’s lifetime if they graduate from college. Thanks to The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation, nearly 500 students will board The Choice Bus. The half-prison cell, half-classroom converted school bus, which visually portrays two different life perspectives, will visit students on Thursday, October 30 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. at 1220 67th Street / Ensley.
Since 2008, The Choice Bus has impacted the lives of more than 2,000,000 students in 21 states. The bus is one of six tools created by The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation devoted to continuing the process of reducing the dropout rate in the United States.
The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the dropout rate. The foundation was established in honor of Dr. Shelley Stewart’s late mother, Mattie C. Stewart, in the summer of 2007 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Its primary corporate partner is o2ideas, Inc., an advertising and public relations company also based in Birmingham. The mission of the foundation is to create tools and resources to help educators, community leaders and parents effectively address the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate. The foundation also partners with America’s Promise Alliance, Communities In Schools, Jobs for Alabama’s Graduates, the National Dropout Prevention Center, PepsiCo, Shelby County, State Farm and Verizon. For more information, visit www.mattiecstewart.org.
