SC21 Napa

If you've only been to Napa as a visitor it might be hard to understand why that city needs a Democracy Zone. But . . . this is where the 44 percent (of students) live who receive free or reduced price school meals. If they have little say in the city's civic and cultural life, it's not because they don't exist.The big story in Napa is that their children are the ones who have chosen to advocate for them. I recently went to see how they had managed not just to circumvent the existing power structure but build an entirely separate one designed on a principle of inclusiveness.