After the original investigation, Tim King was barred from the schools he founded that focus on young Black men. The judge didn’t rule on the merits of the recantation, but said it would be “just” for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois State Board of Education put an end to a long fight from Urban Prep Academy. The state board denied the school's appeal Wednesday to keep control of its two remaining ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Students at Urban Prep are making Chicago proud. For the eighth consecutive year 100 percent of the school's seniors have been admitted to college. But as the students celebrate their ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Friday marked the ending of a chapter and the beginning of a new one for dozens of Urban Prep Academies graduates. Musical selections filled the room as over 50 high school graduates ...

*For the seventh consecutive year, every last senior at Chicago’s predominantly black, all-boys charter school Urban Prep is headed to college, reports the Huffington Post. At the school’s three ...

Success! Next fall, Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy will again meet its goal of sending 100 percent of its graduates — all black males, and mostly from Chicago’s “worst” neighborhoods — to four-year ...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge ordered Chicago Public Schools to redo its investigation into whether the once-lauded founder and former CEO of Urban Prep charter schools committed sexual misconduct ...

At a glance, it doesn’t even seem like news: A prep school with a great track record sends all of its graduating seniors to college, for the fourth year in a row. But it is. Especially when you ...

The Star ran an AP story in its Sunday edition, Inner-city charter school applauds its first batch of college graduates. It’s about a Chicago charter school, Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, ...