Cincinnati Magazine / November 2018
Darlene Kamine,executive director of the Community Learning Center Institute,… sees most poverty initiatives as spawned by people far removed from who they aim to serve – trying to strategize for “those people” – instead of designing a program or school to which they’d send their own children. At the same time, she recognized that schools aren’t simplay a place to hold classes, a place where kids go for set hours each day, but instead a school is a “taxpayer-funded public asset, usually the biggest asset in a neighborhood,” that should be valued by everyone, regardless of whether they have children…
