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Updated: Monday, 26 Apr 2010, 5:11 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 26 Apr 2010, 5:11 PM EDT
BOSTON, MASS. (WPRI) - A Boston public charter school that specializes in training students for health careers will now carry the name of the late Senator Edward Kennedy.
Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino , Kennedy's widow Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and dozens of other people participated in a ceremony Sunday to rename the Health Careers Academy as the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers.
The school last year had the highest four-year graduation rate of all Boston public high schools and the third-lowest dropout rate.
Menino said the school bearing Kennedy's name represents much of what the senator stood for in promoting high-quality education and trying to improve health care nationwide.
Kennedy died in August of 2009 , after a battle with brain cancer. He served 47 years in the U.S. Senate.
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