NBA Great Jalen Rose Charts New Course as Education Entrepreneur with New School

Former NBA star Jalen Rose is charting a new course after a life in professional basketball with the opening of the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in Detroit. He said:

“I’m a Detroit native and I know that unions are Big Business. All adults know that. Based on the number of schools, the number of kids, the number of dollars that flow through that situation. But a lot of the people that are standing on the table with that argument can’t necessarily pose the reason why that’s valid other than money. Look at the numbers of graduation rates that we have here lately: 30 percent for 9th graders graduating. In Detroit we have 47 percent of the adults that are functionally illiterate. So there is obviously something that is not happening in the right manner.” Source

Hats off to Jalen Rose for working to make a difference in the lives of our children and not living the high life like some of our black celebrities.