Reform: Another Questionable Urban Prep "Success" Story
The event was transmitted live online and the Mayor was in attendance along with a throng of media. There were repeated assertions that what was being done was unique nationally. The occasion? The announcement that - for the second year in a row -- all of the senior class at Chicago's Urban Prep had been accepted to a four year university. But the school's graduation rate isn't really 100 percent. Roughly 40 kids of the starting class of 2011 didn't make it through at, an issue raised on my blog and in the WSJ (here) last year.