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Chicago Won't Allow High School Students to Graduate Without a Plan for the Future

posted by martyb on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:09AM   
from the can-you-plan-to-fail...-and-succeed? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

CHICAGO — To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/chicago-wont-allow-high-school-students-to-graduate-without-a-plan-for-the-future/2017/07/03/ac197222-5111-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html

To make this stranger, all the students automatically meet this requirement since they are pre-approved for a community college:

A top CPS official also acknowledged, however, that every Chicago public high school graduate essentially already meets the new standard because graduation guarantees admittance to the City Colleges of Chicago community college system.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-high-school-requirement-met-20170405-story.html

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• Re:Calling Mr Yossarian... (Score: 2, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Sunday July 09 2017, @06:17PM

  by nitehawk214 (1304) on Sunday July 09 2017, @06:17PM (#536871)

  Or an excuse to defund schools with sagging graduation rates.

  Ive never understood the push to pull funding from under performing schools. Aren't those the ones that need the most help?

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