Of the 2,000 girls in the program, not a single one has reported another pregnancy. And most exciting, the superintendent of Chicago schools asked religious leaders for help to put character education back into the curriculum. Today kids in Chicago are exposed to at least 300 sessions of character instruction during the school year. Well, the answer has to do with how the programs are set up. Loconte is right.
Public schools are desperate for the kind of help the church is well-suited to provide.
And Chicago is proving that churches can help, if they go about it the right way. The partnership between Chicago schools and churches is now held up as a model by the U.S. Department of Education. Reprinted with the permission of Prison Fellowship Ministries, P.O. Box 17500, Washington D.C., 20041-0500. All Rights Reserved. May not be reproduced or distributed without the express written permission of Prison Fellowship Ministries.