Go to: Championing Children Oral Lee Brown “adopted” a class of first-graders in Oakland, California, promising to pay college tuition for every student who graduated from high school. On an annual salary of $45,000, she did it -- pledging $10,000 of her own money each year and creating a foundation to raise the rest. Her foundation’s new goal: Send 20 students to college every four years. • CNN Heroes: Oral Lee Brown • Oral Lee and her babies On the Web: • Oral Lee Brown Foundation