High school entrepreneur program teaches students link between learning and life

MICHAEL BRADLEY and George Gonzalez of Oakland are like so many entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. They talk excitedly and effusively about their new business. They spend odd hours night and day working on their business plan. They wear T-shirts with the company logo on it.

But unlike most Bay Area entrepreneurs, Bradley and Gonzalez are 17-year-old inner city youths for whom the prospect of running their own business — indeed the prospect of determining their own destinies — seemed remote just a few years ago.

They are students of a business entrepreneurship class taught at McClymonds High School provided by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

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