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Quarterback Drew Brees to Lead A Team Effort to Highlight Successes in Education

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Quarterback Drew Brees to Lead A Team Effort to Highlight Successes in Education
Harahan, LA. – Quarterback Drew Brees will lead an effort to promote the good news in education when he serves as spokesman for the re-launch of Making the Grade. In a partnership with OMNI BANK, Brees announced his decision to champion education in the Greater New Orleans area at a press conference.

Brees was a model student-athlete at Purdue University where he broke numerous football records while being named the Academic All-American Player of Year and winner of the Socrates Award as top college athlete in terms of academics. He was also honored as the recipient of Purdue’s Leonard Wilson Award for unselfishness and dedication. Brees will be the spokesman for the OMNI BANK re-launch of “Making the Grade,” a program developed in New Orleans in the 1980s.

Officials with OMNI BANK, the largest bank headquartered in Jefferson Parish, decided to fund the public service campaign to heighten awareness of successful education programs, curriculum, students and teachers. Said OMNI BANK President and CEO Jim Hudson, “Our future rests on the shoulders of today’s students. Highlighting their achievements will boost confidence in education.”

In the Making the Grade program, superintendents and school principals in Jefferson, Orleans, St. Tammany and St. John parishes will nominate teachers and programs in their school system that are making a difference in education. Twelve of the nominees will be selected to be presented in a print campaign and public service announcements that will broadcast throughout the school year. The public service announcements give parents and students a chance to see what schools are succeeding and promote idea-sharing between teachers. The program previously garnered national attention when Barbara Walters featured Making the Grade in a nationally televised report on successful education programs. And when executives with Colgate learned through Making the Grade that a giant map of the U.S. painted on a school playground was helping students learn geography, they paid to have similar maps painted in schoolyards across the country.

OMNI, an independent community bank, has a long, strong history of involvement in various public service projects throughout Greater New Orleans. 

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