It's hard to tell if Old Skool Cafe is a catering company or a culinary academy, a swing dance club or a pop-up restaurant, a coffee roaster or a community garden.
First and foremost, it's an education for the at-risk kids who study and work there.
Old Skool is the brainchild of Teresa Goines, a former juvenile corrections officer. "I saw so many kids with great intentions of turning their lives around, but after getting locked up, they didn't have many options," she recalls. "Good luck finding work with a criminal record."
Read more at SFGate
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/19/DD0J1JFJM8.DTL&tsp=1
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