We are striving to empower youth and adults wielding education as our armor in the ongoing fight for a better future.
According to the Educational Attainment of Chicago Public School Students in a 2021 U Chicago Report :
If 2021 rates hold over the next decade, of 100 current CPS ninth-graders, 82 would graduate from high school within four years; 37 would enroll immediately in a four-year college; 13 would enroll immediately in a two-year college; and 27 would complete any college credential within 10 years of starting high school.
AMERICA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM
A recent Georgetown University study found that 11.5 million of the 11.6 million jobs created between 2011 and 2016 were claimed by college graduates. Having a college degree has become essential to securing long-term employment.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Urban Labs announced new results from their study of One Summer Chicago Plus, a jobs program designed to reduce violence and prepare youth living in some of the city’s highest-violence neighborhoods for the labor market.
The study was carried out over the summer of 2013 in partnership with the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services. It found that the program, which provided a six-week, minimum-wage job for 25 hours a week, reduced the number of violent-crime arrests for participants by 33 percent over the subsequent year.
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