Say Yes to Education

Abstract

Say Yes spent a quarter of a century rehearsing for its prime-time performance in Syracuse, running programs in four other cities with small groups of students in a few schools to make them college ready, and then providing the wherewithal for them to pursue higher education. But Say Yes, the brainchild of the University of Pennsylvania’s Norman Newberg and financier George A. Weiss, who remains a fiscal angel, never before climbed the big stage to accept the challenge of remaking an entire urban school system.