Test scores show that public schools in the nation's capital have been failing a large portion of their students ? the mostly poor African Americans and Latinos. However, one school has been quite successful despite the challenges. This is the story of an success of the Cesar Chavez Charter School for Public Policy, and the success of the founder, Irasema Salcido.
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Test scores show that public schools in the nation's capital have been failing a large portion of their students ? the mostly poor African Americans and Latinos. However, one school has been quite successful despite the challenges. This is the story of an success of the Cesar Chavez Charter School for Public Policy, and the success of the founder, Irasema Salcido.
Broadcast History
Broadcast on the World Vision Report on July 22, 2006.
Transcript
START WITH SOUNDS OF KIDS COMING IN AND BEEPS OF GETTING WANDED DOWN
GRABER: As kids walk into this DC high school, they slide their book bags through a scanner. Guards wave beeping wands up and down the students? bodies to check for weapons. It could be the entrance to any troubled urban school. But this is the Cesar Chavez charter school for public policy, and it?s more than a bit unusual.
SALCIDO: when I went out to recruit students I said look it?s going to be different, it?s going to be very demanding, we?re going to have very high discipline standards and attendance standards. We?re going to require quality. But we?re going to be there for you as well.
GRABER: Irasema Salcido is the founder of Cesar Chavez. The school?s made up mostly of low-income minority students from throughout DC, which means almost all of them came from a notoriously troubled school system. About a...
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Test scores show that public schools in the nation's capital have been failing a large portion of their students ? the mostly poor African Americans and Latinos. However, one school has been quite successful despite the challenges. The World Vision Report's Cynthia Graber has the
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