. >> jabali sawicki: hallelujah. >> good morning, sir. >> pelley: jabali sawicki is headmaster of whatk house, an old school in brooklyn that had been abandoned as the neighborhood collapsed. >> sawicki: it's dilapidated. it's falling down. people walk by, and they graffiti on it. that's exactly how people viewed african-american boys at the time. >> pelley: sawicki was hired by tudor jones. >> i hope that you... >> pelley: and they opened the excellence boys charter school, grades k through 8. tudor jones believes that his experiment with that middle school in the 1980s failed because he caught the kids too late. >> tudor jones: the only way to break the cycle of poverty statistically is higher levels of education attract higher levels of income. the only way to beat poverty in america is to completely, totally transform our public education system. it's the only way. >> one school, one nation. >> pelley: now, robin hood is supporting younger kids in 80 schools. it spent $35 million turning the crack house into a crack program. they call the students here "scholars." the day is long,