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‘We have a culture change mission’: Pathways helps East St. Louis students go to college
Of all the high school seniors who are part of a program at the Christian Activity Center in East St. Louis, every one of them graduated and each is headed to college at the end of summer.
In a school district where 54 percent of the male students graduate from high school, according to the Illinois State School Report Card, 100 percent who are involved in the Pathways program at the CAC have graduated, said program director Angela Whitlow.
Great goods for them. Right? Wrong. Read on:
So far, there are 168 students in the Pathways program: 107 in middle school, 16 high school sophomores, 11 high school juniors and the six recently graduated seniors.
This huge dropoff between the number of middle school students particpating and the number of high school students participating is curious, and it sure brings out the cynic in me.
As if.

