Don’t believe the hype! Our young Black males are out here putting in work in the classroom and getting into college. Big congrats to Chicago Urban Prep Academy for setting the standard in education. This is why #BlackLivesMatter!
via Blavity.com
Each member of the school’s graduating class of 2016 has committed to attending a four-year college or university that they have been accepted to. This is the seventh straight year that the school’s graduating class has had a 100 percent college acceptance rate.
The academy’s founder and CEO Tim King tells CBS Chicago that its students have been accepted to more than 200 colleges and universities, including Georgetown, Yale, University of Illinois, Morehouse and more. The class of 2016 also received more than 1,500 college admissions in total and over $15 million in scholarship and grants.
