The Chicago Nonprofit That's Helping A Million Low-income Students Graduate

Gwen Moran, Fast Company
Tue, 07/29/2014 - 2:54am

Three families started One Million Degrees to help community college students. Now the statistics are finally changing.David Scherer was troubled by the numbers. In 2002, roughly 100,000 students were attending one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. Yet less than 10% were getting a degree. And those who did were taking an average of six years to do so.Read Full Story

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