Urban Prep “miracle” – loses 50% of students, still reaps praise
The Urban Prep Charter School marketing band wagon rolls on.Once again, the school is pulling out all the stops (and, apparently, Governor Quinn) to congratulate itself for having once more gotten “100%” of its students into college.
Problem is, Urban Prep once more forgot to mention that it lost about half of its students along the way. This class started out with 165 students freshman year and yet only 85 are graduating.
At least this year some in the media are asking the question I first asked two years ago, when Urban Prep