Brother Brian Carty, director and founder of the De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York, is scheduled to meet with the board of school directors to discuss how the school and education concept can be extended to more children. More than 750 children apply each year for 50 seats in the De La Salle, and most have several other options, if rejected, but to go to the New York Public School system. The school relies on the financial support of the local community and charitable funds to cover operating expenses, as most students can not pay the tuition of about $ 9,000 a year to attend. Not only high school graduates go to elite preparatory and independent schools in the north-east, but they also go to some of the most well-regarded colleges in the country, including Brown, Harvard, Stanford and Yale. "Hide
by Thomas J. DeLong, David L. Ager Source: Harvard Business School 14 pages. Publication Date: July 21, 2003. Prod. #: 404024-PDF-ENG
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