California Charter School Prepares Hispanic Students for College

“Author Joanne Jacobs understands a fundamental problem with the way our public school systems are set up: “Less affluent parents are stuck with what they get.” Reform, she observes, can take years. Unfortunately, that is not a luxury kids stuck in the system can afford.

Charter schools offer an alternative approach to education–a way to escape the system. For example, students attending Downtown College Prep, a charter school in San Jose, California, learn in a dynamic environment where teachers and administrators try new ways to provide a learning experience that truly prepares them for college, as Jacobs relates in Our School. Students must work hard to succeed there, and students who don’t devote themselves to their education don’t get ahead.”

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