Detroit's Cristo Rey High School provides a program new to the city
that not only helps its low-income students pay for school but also gives
them valuable workplace experience.
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At Cristo Rey High School, students from low-income families will
work one day a week in local businesses and organizations to help pay
for their schooling.
The school's alternative learning model
seeks to provide its students -- about 75 in the inaugural freshman
class -- with a rigorous college-prep education and polished work
resumé by the time they graduate.
"We wanted to make an excellent
Catholic high school affordable for low-income families," says Sister
Canice Johnson, a Sister of Mercy who led a grassroots effort to bring
the Cristo Rey model to Detroit.
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