Private Schools Lead the Way for Urban Kids

The St.Louis Post-Dispatch reports:

A framed college acceptance letter rests against a wall in the makeshift office of a small St. Louis middle school.

The letter - from Southeast Missouri State University - means the world to the man at the desk, Loyola Academy President Kevin Lee.

It represents the first of the private school's dozens of graduates to get into college.

Seven years ago, Loyola Academy opened as an experiment. Now, with three similar schools here, it is part of a national movement helping urban children enter some of the region's selective private high schools, and from there, win admission to college.

The triumph of private education.