Reformer Speaks in Buffalo

  According to, Mike Desmond, One of America's leading educational reformers is in town, speaking to the area's first Power of Education summit in the Adam's Mark.

Seven-hundred people are slated to hear Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada. Canada's program mixes education, health care and social care in a 100-block section of that Manhattan neighborhood with ten-thousand school children.

Friday's summit is sponsored by the Community Action Organization of Erie County, which is working with several community agencies to create a children's zone here, focusing on a relationship between neighborhoods and a new network of neighborhood schools.

C-A-O President and C-E-O Nathan Hare says education of Buffalo kids must be be improved.

"If we bring these schools back into a structure where the majority of kids are walking distance to the school you can then begin to build neighborhood structures where there's a lot of loyalty within the neighborhood to the school and the school to the neighborhood," he said.

Hare is praising the efforts of Buffalo's District Parent Coordinating Council to get parents involved to the point there is a parent for each of the city's 13-hundred public school classrooms helping.
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