Basketball superstar LeBron James has a vision of what a public school should be, but in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, there was nothing that resembled what he envisioned.
Instead of complaining, lobbying, or nagging Congress “to do something,” he used his name and influence to get the local school district to help him create the public school of his dreams—one that helps kids like himself, the son of a teen mother who went through great hardship to raise him.
