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Jul 19, 2024
EDT 3RD ANNUAL FUND RAISER EVENT
EDT 3RD ANNUAL
FALL/WINTER FUNDRAISER
DATE: Wednesday October 2nd, 2024
TIME: 6pm-8pm
LOCATION: Dalcy Event Hall,30...
Nov 10, 2022
EDT 2nd Annual Fund Raiser
EDT 2ND ANNUAL FALL/WINTER FUNDRAISER
“Elevating and inspiring youth in Chicago”
Nov 26, 2020
The Harsh Truth
A 2017 report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that just 18 percent of Black eighth-graders reach reading “proficiency.” And in 2015, NAEP found that only 17 percent of Black 12th graders were proficient at reading. This means that during normal times, fewer than two out of every ten African-American high school graduates have the baseline skills they need to succeed. Compare that to the nearly half of White 12th graders who tested “proficient,” a rate about three times higher than that of Black high school seniors.