The Lord has blessed us with this opportunity. We're talking about smaller class sizes and a place where students are treated like family. Without the state money, we couldn' t have done it. The school is one of four in the country licensed by teacher Marva Collins, who started a revolutionary inner-city school in Chicago that focuses on recitation of the basics. There's no art, music, gym or recess.
Students wear uniforms and are required to memorize a poem each week.
They're expected to succeed and go on to college. Just hard work and time on task. The same might be said of school reform in Milwaukee. The blue-collar city has paid a price to usher in one of the nation's first voucher school programs. Public school officials and teacher unions fought the plan.