Dave Bing's vision for Detroit

The former basketball superstar isn't your typical guy.The Detriot Free Press reports Bing :

expects the epithets as Detroit reacts to his decision to support a second public school system, paid for mostly by a white Plymouth businessman the city has rejected once.

But Bing doesn't have his heart in the politics of it all. His heart is in changing the way Detroit children are educated and getting them prepared for work. He supports 15 charter high schools, but he's focused mostly on one -- a technical high school near his steel company -- that is part of his larger plan to transform a dying community into the working and middle-class haven it once was.

Read the whole story because politicians can't do what Bing can.