CPS has doubled the number of college classes students are taking at their schools. Is it paying off?

Dual credit” enrollment classes can help better prepare students for college and avoid debt. But some worry about ...
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Chicago students took more than 13,000 dual credit classes last year. Is it helping them get ahead?

A Chalkbeat data analysis on dual credit and higher education outcomes in Chicago shows that some high schools that boosted ...

City Colleges students get big boost

Program giving academic, financial support helps City Colleges grads earn more, study finds By Mary Norkol. Support works: Community college students who participate in the Chicag ...
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Hope Chicago has helped 2,600 CPS grads get to college, and now, one more class will benefit

Senshay Lofton woke up at 5 a.m. last month to help load boxes into her family’s car and then watched as her mom, dad and older sister drove past the bungalows of the city’s Southwest Side toward the ...
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College scholarship program for CPS graduates expands

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Five more universities are now a part of the Chicago Star Partnership, an effort to make college more affordable for CPS graduates. "And no city's ever gone wrong investing in its ...

Here are the colleges in Illinois that produce the highest salaries

As students may be figuring out where to go to college, a new tool shows them which Illinois schools produce the highest ...