Our program is highly innovative because while programs in the past have support student media and/or training for journalism advisors, no program has offered ongoing support while targeting the highest need schools (based on extensive and difficult to acquire data). Additionally, our curriculum development agenda which is the subject of my doctoral research endeavors to make journalism a part of the normal English Langauge Arts curriculum for ALL KIDS to test the hypothesis that since journalism curriculum improves academic outcomes for self-selecting students, it would follow that it would also improve outcomes for students who don't self-select for journalism study. Finally, our program also addresses the enormous short-fall of minority journalists (Castenada, 2008) by exposing more inner-city kids to a potential career in journalism.