We're not preparing our kids for the jobs of the future.

(Former Mayor) Coleman Young said in 1975 that the key to Detroit's future is jobs. In 2005 the key to Detroit's future is still jobs, ... The thing that keeps me up at night is, how do we partner today's kids with tomorrow's jobs?

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

We simply cannot allow for it to continue to kill our jobs and, frankly, to move our kids out of state.

This is the first year that we have done anything like this. The kids are really into their jobs. Every student ran for an elected position. They made posters and gave speeches.

With jobs you can attack social exclusion.