House Resolution 37 - Introduced HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 37 BY PAULSEN , STANERSON , STAED , and T. TAYLOR A Resolution honoring Kennedy High School in Cedar 1 Rapids, named as Iowa’s best. 2 WHEREAS, Iowa’s quarter-dollar commemorative 3 coin produced by the United State Mint depicts 4 an Iowa school house and proclaims “Foundation in 5 Education”; and 6 WHEREAS, the truth of that bold statement is found 7 at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, named Iowa’s 8 best by the U.S. News and World Report; and 9 WHEREAS, this designation followed a rigorous 10 study, based on key principles that a great high school 11 must serve all of its students well, not just those 12 who are college-bound, and that it must be able to 13 produce measurable academic outcomes across a range 14 of performance indicators, to show that the school is 15 successfully educating its student body; and 16 WHEREAS, the study involved 21,035 public high 17 schools in 49 states and the District of Columbia; NOW 18 THEREFORE, 19 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 20 That the House of Representatives honors Principal 21 Mary Wilcynski, the staff, the proud parents, and the 22 students of Kennedy High School on being named Iowa’s 23 best high school in 2013. 24 -1- LSB 2533HH (4) 85 jr/rj 1/ 1