Tuesday, February 22, 2011

News To Celebrate: Urban Prep: 100 Percent Of Graduates College-Bound For Second Straight Year

For the second consecutive year, an all-male charter school located in one of Chicago's worst neighborhoods is sending its entire senior class to college, reports the Huffington Post.

Urban Prep Charter Academy was founded in 2006, and its goal from the start was for every one of its graduates to be attending college when they left. It was an unlikely mission, given that only four percent of the school's first freshman class was reading at grade level when they entered.

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