12/3/2008
Connecticut Newspaper Features New School Opening

The News Times in Danbury, CT featured an article on the front page of
the October 6, 2008 edition featuring Pathways Academy, a private
street school for middle school boys that StreetSchool Network(TM)
supported in opening this semester.

Excerpt:
Pathways Academy is under Jericho Partnership, a collaboration of nine
ministries, four churches, and two foundations serving at-risk youth,
and homeless people in Danbury.

"It's real nice here," student Ryan Rodriguez-Albenesi said Monday. "I
feel like since I'm learning the stuff better, I understand it
better."

The school aims to take at risk boys, build their self-esteem, teach
discipline, improve achievement, and provide emotional and academic
support to bolster what they get at home so they are ready for high
school. It plans to grow to serve 36 students in sixth, seventh and
eighth grade.

Pathways' principal, Cedric Rice, a retired executive at IBM, also
teaches math and science at the school. He said the students who are
accepted have at least three risk factors, such as coming from
one-parent homes, poor families, or having a family member who is
incarcerated.

"It's been determined that the middle school is one of the hardest
times for boys, and when they have risk factors they can get off
track," Rice said.