Another terrific example of people helping people! We will all benefit when these students graduate with a degree and have successful professional lives; starting businesses, paying taxes, buying houses, etc. DP
Fox News.com: Hispanic students from poor and blue-collar families were lost in the system. Half dropped out; only 10 percent went on to a four-year college.
Successful students from low-income, Mexican immigrant families were like needles in a haystack, Andaluz and Lippman concluded. They didn’t want to spend their careers sharpening a few needles. “We wanted to educate the haystack,” says Andaluz.
So they started a charter high school, Downtown College Prep, to prepare left-behind students to succeed at four-year colleges.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.
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