Healing Charlottesville
Community-based private non-profit corporation takes over Jefferson as a free private charter school.
The effort to save Jefferson School seems to involve three overlapping phases.
- Recover the past.
- Preserve the present.
- Create a different future.
Here is some brainstorming:
- Begin raising $4.4 million to buy the school from the city. As long as the city owns the school, the school's future is uncertain. Anyone or entity anywhere is encouraged to make a donation.
- Stocks would be sold for $20 each. The low price would make an investment in Jefferson School affordable to everyone. Participation in history is affordable for everyone.
- No one person or entity would be allowed to purchase more than, say, $20,000 in stock. Each owner of stock, along with family and friends, is encouraged to visit during non-school hours.
- Stockholders would vote on major decisions like principal and school charter.
- State and federal grants would come directly to the school.
- Only students who want to be there would attend. That's called a magnet school.
- Jefferson could lease out a portion of the school for the city's preschoolers.
If Jefferson has a greater significance nationally than locally, let's allow national participation.
Blair Hawkins
Sun 10 Feb 2002.
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