January 5, 2013 — The Dallas Morning News reports on students taking part in the Bickel & Brewer Foundation Future Leaders Program (FLP), stating that the students are "part of an after-school program whose mission is to cross fault lines between rich and poor, between life south and north of the Trinity River. The program’s charge is to get selected Dallas ISD students into college."
The article, titled "Law firm helps propel needy Dallas ISD students into college as ‘the chosen,'" states that the program is "free for students and funded by a foundation operated by Bickel & Brewer, a 42-lawyer corporate firm where top attorneys earn $1,000 an hour, defending corporations or litigating for them."
“If we are not a country that ensures equal outcomes, how do we ensure equal opportunities?” said Bill Brewer, explaining his motivation for founding the program.
Students are selected by their teachers for the Dallas program based on grades, school attendance, civic involvement and leadership potential.
“What has been affirmed is that children and young people want to learn and become their very best selves,” said St. Mark’s School of Texas headmaster Arnold Holtberg, who has worked with the FLP since 2001.
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