African American city leaders took their fight to City Hall to keep an all-boys charter school out of the hands of CPS.
African American city leaders took their fight to City Hall to keep an all-boys charter school out of the hands ofThe Illinois State Board of Education ruled to close Urban Prep Academies, and the Chicago Board of Education agreed, citing financial mismanagement and a sexual misconduct investigation.
The Chicago Board has since turned Urban Prep over to Chicago Public Schools, which vowed to open a new school to take existing students. However, Urban Prep leadership and some graduates are not happy with that compromise. "Urban Prep has prepared all of us because I am a living and breathing testimony of what can happen when a young man from a tough neighborhood goes to the right school," said Urban Prep graduate Juwaun Cooper Muhammad. All the news you need to know, every day
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