Hope Chicago makes strides in raising college enrollment on South and West sides
In 2022, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson announced a $1 billion scholarship program to get more students into college.
A year after launching, new research on Hope Chicago is showing significant progress in sending more high school students on the city’s South and West sides to college. But the work doesn’t stop there — the nonprofit also wants to send parents to college too.
Reset learns more about the organization’s work and its long-term goals of ending crime, violence and poverty in Chicago.
GUESTS: Janice Jackson, CEO of Hope Chicago
Harumi Barron, Hope Chicago scholar and University of Illinois Chicago student
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Hope Chicago makes strides in raising college enrollment on South and West sides
In 2022, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson announced a $1 billion scholarship program to get more students into college.
A year after launching, new research on Hope Chicago is showing significant progress in sending more high school students on the city’s South and West sides to college. But the work doesn’t stop there — the nonprofit also wants to send parents to college too.
Reset learns more about the organization’s work and its long-term goals of ending crime, violence and poverty in Chicago.
GUESTS: Janice Jackson, CEO of Hope Chicago
Harumi Barron, Hope Chicago scholar and University of Illinois Chicago student