Summary
Greg Lippman and Jennifer Andaluz were two idealistic young teachers from San Jose who dreamed of creating a school that welcomed what they called the "wretched refuse' of the public school system, underachieving kids who otherwise would almost certainly drop out or be shuffled along until they graduated with few skills and little chance for a decent job.
In their dream, Lippman, 30 and Andaluz, 27, would take these kids from poor families in gang-ridden neighborhoods and put them through a high-standards, high-expectations high school with the promise that anybody who graduated would go on to a four-year college.See the full content of this document
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Taking Risks to Take Back the Schools
It was an outlandish idea, to be sure. But thanks to California's charter school law, which allows teachers, parents and communities to create their own public schools free from most state and local regul...
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