Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Jacksonville’s Success Zone
In today’s Jacksonville, Florida, Times-Union, an editorial about the Harlem Children’s Zone, Whatever It Takes and the city’s new “Success Zone”:
Late in the new book describing the Harlem Children’s Zone, Barack Obama is mentioned for the first time.
In July 2007, the future president of the United States gave a speech on urban poverty and held up the Harlem Children’s Zone as a model.
If elected, he would replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone in 20 cities.
Could Jacksonville leap ahead into that select group of cities? All the ingredients are there.