
24: Al Talks with one of his Heroes, Harlem Children's Zone Founder Geoffrey Canada
The Al Franken Podcast
00:00
How Many Kids Graduate High School?
We have about 97 98 % of our kids who graduate high school. And it's unusual for one of our kids not to go to college, and it's almost unheard of for them not to actually graduatehigh school. We don't even count graduating high school as an outcome because we assume all our kids are going to graduate. If they haven't, then that person is probably, whoever was mentering that child and supporting that child's probably not going to have a job with us the next year if their kids aren't duating high school. That's a minimum threshold for us, and not the ceiling were we're trying to get our kids through college.
Transcript
Play full episode