Obama's Reform Plan and Community Schooling

Obama's reform plan involves key aspects of community schooling.
He wants high standards such as those in the No Child Left Behind Act to remain which community schooling methods include through involving parents and educators in a students' education and keeping them informed of their progress and advancement.
The Cristo Rey community schooling method involves students spending one day a week at work in addition to their already longer school day. This is what Obama wants to see. He wants students to be serving their community and others for funding dollars which help support their education.
These students are not only earning money which benefits themselves and their parents but they are also providing a valuable resource by donating their time and services to businesses in the communities in which they live in.
Obama wants new models for education and community schooling, specifically the Cristo Rey model, is what will change education.
This reform model involves businesses in education and allows them to have a role in forming the future work-force. This is done through businesses seeing students from Cristo Rey schools daily at work.
Although Cristo Rey is a private educational model more and more of educational funding today is coming from private money so it makes sense that a private educational model is leading reform.
Although today Cristo Rey schools are located in poor and mostly minority communities they are seeing remarkable success in their students which is clearly what Obama wants since he and Bush have both given billions of dollars in federal spending to supplement already existing educational programs.
The current work-force is a majority of technologically advanced jobs or jobs requiring a college degree. The best way for students to get access to this new market is to go to schoools which understand what they need to know now to succeed tomorrow and the outdated teachnology, textbooks, and materials in many underfunded schools and classrooms will not suffice. This is why new money has to come to schools to give students a chance at learning about the new job market so they can succeed in the future. The Cristo Rey model of education has done this through advocating work and school together to reform the community while educating students.
Community schooling will allow parents to play a greater role in a childs' education by being able to have greater access to teachers, principals and other school staff. The community also is given a number of ways to partner with schools to help answer the needs of the community. Schools are open longer, faculty is more easily accessible, and services from academic, recreational, health, social, and work preparation programs are all available in extended day community schools. This helps families who are struggling to get medical attention for their children, and those that want their children to have a chance to participate in extra-curriculars and go beyond the normal school day.