The New York State Education Department selected the Marist College LPP to pilot ScholarShop and encouraged Best Buy Co. to form the partnership with Marist. Fifty-seven LPP programs throughout the state represent 14,000 students, and local students are among the first in the state to use the curriculum. Marist students will help implement the curriculum by facilitating workshops or assisting students with independent activities. LPP is funded through the New York State Education Department to provide services that motivate at-risk students to graduate from high school and enter college or the work force as competent adults. Guidance counselors, teachers and principals refer students to LPP and a total of 225 students are served by the program each year.
Marist students serve as tutors, interns and coordinators.
So far this year, more than 50 Marist students have been involved. All Rights Reserved.