Mrs. Coz gives a high school some cash:
Camille Cosby gives $2 million to city school
Wife of Bill Cosby lauds Saint Frances Academy for college acceptance rate
The Associated Press
April 4, 2005, 5:26 PM EDT
The wife of funny man Bill Cosby is making a serious donation to a Catholic high school in Baltimore.
Camille O. Cosby donated $2 million to Saint Frances Academy, where 90 percent of seniors are accepted to college.
"If we are looking for solutions to the failure of our schools to educate our children, we would be well served by studying and replicating what Saint Frances Academy is doing," Cosby said in a press release today.
The press release calls Saint Frances a proven solution in America's crisis-ridden educational system. The gift spotlights the coeducational academy founded 176 years ago by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an order of black nuns.
Most of Saint Frances' 325 students are black and come from Baltimore's lower-income neighborhoods.
College graduation rates for students from low-income households are generally low, but between 1985 and 1998, more than 70 percent of Saint Frances alumni earned a college degree within six years of graduation.