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*For the third consecutive year, every single senior at Urban Prep Academy, the only all-black, all-male charter high school in Chicago, has been accepted to college, school officials announced. The academy also said that 83 percent of its first graduating class in 2010 has re-enrolled in a second year of college, a rebuttal to critics [...]
*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 [...]
*The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation. Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at an all-school assembly at Urban Prep Academy for Young [...]
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