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Mueller Charter School is located in a working class neighborhood of Chula Vista in southern San Diego County, within miles of the Mexican border. Transformations are rare in schools like Mueller, where
Nevertheless, with the full authority of California's charter law and with a rare genius for creating continuous and innovative change, the high energy staff at Mueller has turned their school into a national model. If it takes a revolution to transform public education, the first shot may have been fired at El Milagro.
Told by their principal, Kevin W. Riley, this is a mesmerizing chronicle of how one school steeled its resolve and rose defiantly against its own history of underachievement. Riley's writing style eloquently captures the mood from within America's troubled schools. His voice is alternately irreverent and lyrical, poignant and humorous, agitated, and always profoundly insightful.
At a time when America's leaders in education, government, business, and law enforcement desperately search for promising school designs, "The Lights of El Milagro" offers innovative solutions and systems that work. The passion is unmistakable, the focus on children unwavering, and the demand for excellence unrelenting.
This may well be the most important book to emerge from within the front lines of public schools since Jonathan Kozol wrote "Death At an Early Age" in 1967.
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