San Antonio College President Robert E. Zeigler will be the keynote speaker in the Graduation Ceremony at the Roosevelt High School Auditorium on Friday, April 2, 10 a.m. for 137 parents who are enrolled in the Parent Academy. Other speakers will include Dr. Richard Middleton, NEISD Superintendent, and Sue Moran, NEISD Director of Compensatory Education.

The Parent Academy is a partnership with the San Antonio College Continuing Education Training Network and the Northeast Independent School District (NEISD) which is designed to promote parents' involvement with their children's education at the elementary school level, said Steven D. R. Sparks, Continuing Education Program Manager and liaison for the Parent Academy.

The college will award a Certificate of Completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to parents completing at least 80 percent of the academy's 10 two-hour sessions, offered September - April. Dr. Ruben Whitney, San Antonio College Outreach Counselor, will join Zeigler, Middleton, and Sparks in presenting the certificates.

NEISD teachers, administrators, and counselors teach academy sessions at different elementary school locations on subjects that include Pre-Kinder/Kinder Activities, Pre-Reading Activities, Reading Fundamentals, Mathematics Made Easy, and Basics of Composition Writing, among others. The last session taught at San Antonio College focuses on higher education opportunities for both parents and their children.

For more information about the Parent Academy, call Sparks at 733-2664.