THUMBS UP A Solid Foundation

Thumbs up to Curtis Meadows, president of the Meadows Foundation, for coming through with $1.3 million to fund the Dallas Independent School District’s Project Early Options. The three-year-old program helps minority, low-income, and first-generation college-eligible students plan their course work and studies on a track leading up to college, provides stipends to teachers to teach special sum-mer sessions, and helps students in preparing for college en-trance exams. Prior to Project Early Options in 1985, only 851 i DISD minority juniors took the PSAT, a major preparatory col-lege entrance exam. In 1987. 2,235 minority juniors took the test. This is proof positive that the program works. The Meadows Foundation, longtime local benefactor, shows wisdom and foresight in supporting DISD, the foundation upon which the future of Dallas will be built.