A group of Indiana University professors is preparing to ask inner-city parents across Indiana to send their kids to a boarding school that they plan to launch with promises of a good education — in Ghana.

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The classes would be taught by Indiana teachers using Indiana’s educational standards in a school overseen by the state of Indiana.

Just on a different continent.

Kevin Brown, the leader of the group, acknowledges there are issues that must be addressed — most notably student safety and legal liability — but says the idea has great potential to offer a lifeline to poor children.

“The core idea is to pull kids out of an environment where they cannot thrive,” said Brown, an IU law professor, “and put them in one where they can.”

The $10,000 or so the state pays to an urban district for a student’s education each year would cover not only the classes, but room, board and travel to a school in Ghana, he said. The $4 million for the school itself would come from donations.

Brown and his group hope to persuade an urban Indiana school district to back the project or get the Indiana Department of Education to sponsor it directly.

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