100 Percent of Chicago Urban Prep Graduates College-Bound

For the last three years, all graduating seniors from the Chicago charter school Urban Prep have continued on to college and this year is no different, NBC Chicago reports.

In all, 167 seniors, all African American males, have been accepted to a four-year college or university.

“What this 100 percent proves beyond a doubt is that it need not

be the exception but it should be the expectation for every child in the city of Chicago,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said at a ceremony where the final students exchanged their red uniform neckties with the red-and-gold striped ones that signify their college-bound status.

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