1.The answer to bad public schools is to use private funding for public education alongside a model like Cristo Rey.
2. The Cristo Rey model takes students who want to succeed in education and gives them the resources to do so. This model focuses on tutoring help, job placement, tuition funding through work-study, and a college prep. curriculum.
3. The Cristo Rey model gives students a head-start in the job market by placing students in job teams to go work at all sorts of different companies. Their Corporate Internship Program (CIP) combines employee leasing and job sharing.
4. Those jobs can often pay up to 70% of students' tuition. This idea eliminates and lowers the need of voucher programs which are often objected for use with private schooling and also if turned into apublic school model this would lower the need for federal funding for schools if a part of the money earned went back to the school. The job program began as a way to pay school for poor students who wold not otherwise be able to attend a private college preparatory school.
5. Another thing the Cristo Rey model provides is structure in education which is often lacking from public schools. It is a college prep. school which expects student to daily be at their best in class or at work.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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