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Before we can address the issue of improving the numbers of African-American students entering college, we must first address the issues surrounding education in general among the African-American communities.

Far too many schools in primarily African-American communities lack the funding required to ensure every child has a chance at a future that includes a college education.

We must educate the parents before the children will follow. Parents are the crucial pieces of the puzzle for children. They lead by example and when the parents are unable or unwilling to lead by example, we have chaos and bedlam. In order to educate the children, the parents must have an education and be willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the education of their children. All schools or community centers need funding to setup classes in time schedules that allow parents to come to class where they can receive an education that will allow them to educate their children.

Funding is necessary to improve the schools within African-American neighborhoods. Additionally, funding is necessary to ensure the safety of the schools themselves. Too many drug dealers, gang members, and other groups hang out at school with the primary goal of depriving others of an education. It is time to remove these children from public school systems. Since these children disrupting the learning process within mainstream schools, it is time to implement more safe schools where a police presence can ensure these children attend school but do so without the drugs, weapons, and other implements to disrupt class.

It is important that society bring successful African-American role models into the schools to talk with these children. It will serve as a way to motivate them into learning by example in the role models of successful African-Americans. It is equally important to enact a system where incarcerated African-Americans can come into the schools in person or if necessary via video conferencing. These people can also serve as role models. They have first-hand knowledge of what a life of crime, gang-banging, and drug dealing will do to a child's future. African-American schoolchildren need to witness both sides of the coin when it comes to how an education or lack thereof can and does affect their future. No amount of money thrown at the problem will enhance the ability for public school children to make it to the college levels unless we as a society begin taking control of our neighborhoods and our

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