Charter Schools: Changing Lives (Trailer)

In Chicago, one out of two public high school students fails to graduate each year. High school dropouts face a difficult road, to put it mildly. Statistics show that dropouts are more likely to serve time in prison than earn $30,000 a year. Chicago's public schools, in short, are failing, and the consequences are dire.

Charter schools--a new kind of public school--have begun to reverse this trend.

"I remember entering here my freshman year barely knowing how to write a sentence," said Chicago International Charter School senior Shantell Hopkins, who now expects to attend college after graduating from high school this year. "Charter schools," says Hopkins, "hold you accountable for everything that you do."

Watch the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogVQV12wCe8

Learn more about charter schools at http://www.illinoispolicy.org.

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• charter schools
• chicago
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• school choice
• graduation
• college
• high school
• inner-city