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Longview ISD middle school has first Duke Scholar in 20 years

Forest Park Middle School seventh-grader Dulce Escalante wants to be president one day. Or a lawyer. Or a nurse.
Credit: Les Hassel - Longview News-Journal

LONGVIEW, Texas — Forest Park Middle School seventh-grader Dulce Escalante wants to be president one day. Or a lawyer. Or a nurse.

Whichever path she chooses, she knows education is the way to accomplish those goals.

“I know I want to go into a good college so I can get a good career,” she said. “It is also important because if kids want to be engineers, technicians or anything they need their studies first, and they need to know how it actually works before they actually start their careers, so I think education is really important.”

Read more from CBS19's newspaper partner, the Longview News-Journal.

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