Inner-city model: This Jesuit high school does what public schools can't

All the students work somewhere -- at more than 100 companies and law firms -- one day a week, at jobs paying $20 an hour, the money going directly to the school, covering 70 percent of its costs. many of the school's 14-year-old ninth-graders, like their parents, have never been downtown. It began in 1996 with 79 students meeting in the four corners of a roller-skating rink. Today the 540 students -- most from two-parent families with an average of five members and an income of $38,000 -- enjoy an old parish school The school exists to nurture a culture...

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