IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1414 
Congratulating Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men—Englewood 
Campus, the Nation’s first all-male charter high school, for achieving 
a 100 percent college acceptance rate for all 107 members of its first 
graduating class of 2010. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 28, 2010 
Mr. RUSH (for himself, Ms. RICHARDSON, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. ANDREWS, 
Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. 
ACKERMAN, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. HODES, Mr. DAVIS of 
Illinois, Mrs. HALVORSON, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. 
CARSON of Indiana, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. CLARKE, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. 
BUTTERFIELD, Mr. WATT, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Mr. SCOTT of 
Georgia, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. CLAY, and Mr. KENNEDY) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Congratulating Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young 
Men—Englewood Campus, the Nation’s first all-male 
charter high school, for achieving a 100 percent college 
acceptance rate for all 107 members of its first grad-
uating class of 2010. 
Whereas, on May 12, 2009, the House Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor held a hearing entitled ‘‘High School 
Dropout Crisis Threatens U.S. Economic Growth and 
Competiveness’’ which cited a 2009 study suggesting that 
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in the 50 largest cities with significantly higher rates of 
poor and minority children, only 53 percent of students 
graduate on time; 
Whereas Urban Prep Academies is a nonprofit organization 
that operates a network of all-boys public schools, includ-
ing the Nation’s first and the State of Illinois’ only char-
ter public high school for boys; 
Whereas in 2002, a group of motivated African-American 
civic, business, and education leaders, organized by Tim 
King, determined to establish a new high school in Chi-
cago, Illinois, focused on providing a strong college-pre-
paratory high school option for boys in underserved Afri-
can-American communities; 
Whereas Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men—En-
glewood Campus was founded in 2002 and received its 
first Charter approval from Chicago public schools in 
2005 under Chicago’s Renaissance 2010 initiative, upon 
receiving a recommendation from Representative Bobby 
L. Rush, and the Englewood High School Transition Ad-
visory Council on which he served; 
Whereas the mission of Urban Prep is to provide a com-
prehensive, high-quality college-preparatory education to 
young men that results in graduates succeeding in col-
lege; 
Whereas Urban Prep’s extended school day and rigorous cur-
riculum and extracurricular ‘‘arcs’’, which includes the 
Academic Arc, Service Arc, Activity Arc, and Professional 
Arc, have been acknowledged as national models for other 
schools catering to underserved low income communities 
by a variety of educational organizations and media out-
lets, including the Chicago Public Schools, the American 
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School Board Journal, the Urban School Improvement 
Network, the Illinois Policy Institute, Education Week, 
the Washington Post, and the Milwaukee Wisconsin 
Journal Sentinel to name a few; 
Whereas a University of Chicago study published in 2006, re-
ported that only 1 in 40 African-American boys in Chi-
cago public schools eventually graduate from a 4-year 
university and, currently, approximately 85 percent of 
Urban Prep students are low-income and all are African- 
American; 
Whereas Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men—En-
glewood Campus, which has inspired the Nation by 
achieving a 100 percent college acceptance rate for its 
June 12, 2010, first ever graduating class, will convene 
an Inaugural ‘‘Signing Day’’ event where each senior stu-
dent will stand to publicly announce the college or univer-
sity he has chosen to attend and commit to that school 
by signing the Urban Prep ‘‘100 Percent to College’’ 
board and the ‘‘Credimus Book’’; 
Whereas to date, more than 80 colleges and universities have 
admitted Urban Prep seniors to their incoming freshmen 
classes and representatives from several of the colleges 
will be in attendance at the ‘‘Signing Day’’ event, where 
these seniors will receive nearly $4,000,000 in college 
scholarships and grants; and 
Whereas Urban Prep has been recognized internationally for 
its success in improving the academic, social, and emo-
tional development of urban young men and the story of 
Urban Prep’s success has been featured by over 140 
media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago 
Sun Times, Washington Post, Good Morning America 
with Robin Roberts, ABC World News with Diane Saw-
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yer, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Anderson Cooper 360, 
National Public Radio, and Essence, Jet, and Black En-
terprise magazines: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives con-
gratulates Principal Tim King and all of the students, 
teachers, administrators, and support personnel at Urban 
Prep Charter Academy for Young Men—Englewood Cam-
pus for achieving a 100 percent college acceptance rate 
for its first graduating class of 2010. 
Æ 
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