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American Career College in Long Beach welcomed the Vice Mayor Robert Garcia
back to campus today
he was the guest speaker at the grand opening celebration last year
and said it was a pleasure to be back on campus to celebrate the one year
anniversary
of American career college in Long Beach
to all of you for being involved and taking your education seriously
and education is going to be the key to success for a lot of people, it was for
me, I came to the U.S. when I was five years old
and growing up in an immigrant family with not a lot of money
English was not my first language and
growing up poor essentially, what really saved my family
and myself was getting an education
and that was not just my accomplishment it was my family's accomplishment, so I want you guys to all remember that
even though you're here, you're really here for everyone in your family
the message from our Vice Mayor Robert Garcia today was so incredibly special
he was able to really communicate with the students and
really demonstrate how they've all come up through the same ranks together
he understands the value of education and really wanted to promote education
and what also he can do for the city of Long Beach
well American Career College is an important part of Long Beach, an important part of downtown, they've
opened a really great campus here and just want to make sure that we're giving all the students
that are here an opportunity to also do
civic engagement and community service
Garcia is now running for mayor of Long Beach
he was the youngest member ever elected to Long Beach City Council at age thirty
if elected mayor he will be the youngest mayor in the history of Long Beach at age 36
as mayor what would you would do
for Long Beach in terms of education?
well I'm an educator myself so I've been
in the classroom now for almost 6, 7 years, I have have a doctorate in higher education my
area of expertise is the California master plan for education
which is our guiding document for a lot of education in California
so for me it is just ensuring that we're working with our colleges and universities
to promote the city, that we're promoting
students, that students have jobs when they Graduate, that we're creating a clear pipeline
between college or trade or technical school
and connecting them with with good jobs and that there's also housing for
students here
have you learned about the GED program here at American Career College
yeah, I'm very familiar with it, I think it's great I think that it's important
for students to have choices and options
and I think American Career College is offering those choices
to learn more about Vice Mayor Garcia visit Robert Garcia dot com