Innovative schools in Baltimore City

I have decided to change my topic for my multimedia package to innovative schools in Baltimore City and what they are doing to stay in school. I will do each module on a different school. I was listening to a program on Provoke Radio the other day about inner city schools giving hope to high school students. According to the Maryland Department of Education, 50% of all Baltimore ninth graders drop out of school. Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore opened thsi year to help solve this educational delimma. The high school is apart of the Cristo Rey Network which consisits of several schools across the country. The first Cristo Rey school was started in Chicago in 1998. In 1994, the school had an attendance rate of 97% and 100% of it's graduates went on to college. What makes these schools unique is that they only enroll students from economic disadvantage families. In order for the students to pay for their tuition, they must participate in the corporate internship program and work one day per week.