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.
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @12:22AM
The summary agrees that all are eligible: "graduation guarantees admittance to the City Colleges of Chicago community college system."
Georgia has a partial-tuition thing for all graduates with a high enough GPA.
Killery had an idea based on that half-assed notion.
There's also The Kalamazoo Promise [wikipedia.org]
So, that's privately-funded, not publicly-funded.
A problem that these free-college notions have is dropout rates.
[1] Chart in article.
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...and Rahm Emanuel is such a total douche.
I don't understand how that Reactionary has managed to get himself elected on a Democrat ticket in a Democrat city.
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