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Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results

Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results

When I joined Urban Prep Academies in 2006 as the founding math teacher at what was to become the nation’s first all-boys public charter high school, the school’s faculty and staff had one central goal. We were on a mission to get black boys from Englewood – a racially segregated and economically distressed neighborhood in Chicago, and […] … learn more→