About 100 high school boys clad in red ties, white button downs and khaki pants filed into the auditorium Monday morning at Urban Prep Academy’s Englewood campus for the first day of school. “There’s been turmoil everywhere about the possibility of Urban Prep closing,” Principal Ron Bryant told students and faculty. “But we are open — you are here. We are going to be exceptional at everything .
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Urban Prep Academies, the once-lauded charter school that caters to Black male students, got the go-ahead to continue operating its two campuses for the upcoming school year after a judge rejected Chicago Public Schools’ plans for a takeover.
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