January 9, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 5 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Pages H74-H75]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    SALUTING JACK YATES HIGH SCHOOL

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise this morning to congratulate a 
very significant and historic high school, Jack Yates High School. Jack 
Yates High School was founded by the founding father, if you will, of 
the African American community in Houston, Freedmen's Town.
  He is the founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. He is respected 
at Texas Southern University, and today they announced in a public 
school that they will implement an international baccalaureate.
  In the midst of the tumultuous times that we have, how important it 
is that high school students will be engaged in discussions of peace, 
diplomacy, understanding world engagement, understanding the value of 
languages and being diverse, recognizing the wonderful experiment of 
the United States founded by those who fled persecution and indicated 
in the Constitution we have organized to create a more perfect union.
  The more young people, more minorities that we can get in programs 
like an international baccalaureate where they will come out with that 
document and be ready to perch on the leadership role is outstanding.
  To Jack Yates High School, I salute you. You are mighty. You are 
important, and God bless you.

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