Urban Prep Academy of Chicago celebrates perfect college acceptance

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Every member in an Illinois school's senior class has been accepted into college for the second time in the school's two-year history.

"No other public school in the country has done this," said Tim King, CEO and founder of Urban Prep Academy in Chicago.

The school was established to battle the low high school and college graduation rates among black men.

"We are Urban Prep men," said Israel Wilson, a 2010 graduate and student at Morehouse College. "And at Urban Prep, we believe."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 18, 2011 1:52 AM
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