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Monday, July 20, 2009

On a mission for low-income youths

It was a startling wake-up call for a high school sophomore whose attention had drifted from history class. He looked out a window and saw the face of the principal – his middle school principal.

Jonathan Arteaga recognized that stare – “like into your soul” – and thought he was in trouble. Principal Brendan Sullivan had directed it at him plenty of times at Nativity Prep Academy, a tiny Catholic middle school in San Diego's Stockton neighborhood.

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