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March 30, 2012

By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune

But critics say school pushes out kids with problems

Urban Prep Academy students cheer on their classmates during last year's assembly. (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune / February 16, 2011) — Urban Prep Academy students cheer on their classmates during last year’s assembly. (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune / February 16, 2011)

For the third year in a row, every senior at Urban Prep Academy, the only all-African-American, all-male charter high school in Chicago, has been accepted to college, the school’s leaders said.

The academy also said that 83 percent of its first graduating class in 2010 has re-enrolled in a second year of college, a rebuttal to critics of the school who have charged that students aren’t always ready for college.

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