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26 Leadership Academy
Jack Gerson uses the problem of the lack of universal health care to teach math concepts. His students at the Leadership Academy, a small school created on the campus of the former Castlemont High School, feel the lack of healthcare sharply, since they live in one of the poorest areas of east Oakland.

photographs and stories by David Bacon © 1990-1999

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