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Article: El Dorado promise.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- January 29, 2007
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WHO SAYS NO NEWS IS good news? The news out of El Dorado last week was beyond simply good. It was positively uplifting.
Murphy Oil Corp. has dedicated $50 million to removing the financial obstacle to college enrollment for every product of El Dorado High School for the next 20 years. What this offer will mean to the future of children fortunate enough to live in El Dorado is obvious and may even be calculable--financially, at least. But what else it will mean to El Dorado and Union County can only be imagined. The next big employer that considers a new site in the area will certainly look at the local education system in a different light: College prep at El ...