Finally, a little inclusion.
That 60 of the nation’s largest school districts are now joining in on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper program is indeed great news.
The word of schools being in the mix gives the president’s $200 million dollar program the kind of “buy-in” it needs to really be successful.
Notice, no new money has been added to the initiative. But now that schools are involved, it makes sense for local nonprofit and private sector sources to open up and get involved.
That’s really the only effective way any trickle-down idea works. You seed from the Feds, attract money from local foundations and businesses, and fund real help to community concerns, in this case African-American and Latino boys in need.
And that, as it turns out, was where the glaring omission was with the program, first announced in February. It wasn’t the lack of schools or the missing local money sources.
It was the rest of the boys who needed the trickle down.
