'Turning Lives Around' Is the Goal Of Burger King-School Partnerships
MIAMI--Business involvement in the public schools is being taken a step further at the Corporate Academy here.
While other companies have "adopted'' schools or contributed staff time or money to existing reform efforts, the Burger King Corporation and its partners started from scratch in 1989 and created this alternative school for students at risk of dropping out of the Dade County schools.
That was a welcome development for Edward Carter, now 18 years old, who was frequently skipping school at Ponce de Leon Middle School before he enrolled...
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