Jack Yates High School - Spurs Program

It’s long way from the classroom to college for some high school students, especially students in low-income neighborhoods who dream of academic success.

Jim Adler has provided a shortcut. This event at Jack Yates High School in Houston in October 2007, highlights the Texas Hammer’s donation that is putting these kids on the road to success in college.

It pays to link them via computers directly to a professor at the University of Texas in Austin who is teaching them to write papers at the college level before they graduate from high school. The program is a partnership between the Houston Independent School District and UT Austin that Jim Adler is underwriting for Yates. 

But you could call it “The Adler Advantage.” 

The program that Jim Adler is underwriting is a first for an inner city high school in Houston. It’s just another way that this tough, smart lawyer is standing up for kids in Texas.