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Rahm Emanuel: No High School Diploma without a Plan for Graduation

All right, I’m guessing this would be highly illegal if the Chicago mayor tried to implement it.

Does this cover people who go work from high school in their family’s business? Who start their own business? Who go straight to work without needing college, trade school, or the military?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday to discuss his new proposal, which would require students to develop a post-high school plan before receiving a diploma.

Chicago would be the first city to adopt such a requirement if the measure is approved by the city’s board of education.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanual announced a proposal to require high school students to show an acceptance letter in order to graduate
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“We live in a period of time where you earn what you learn,” Emanuel said. “The school system of K through 12 is not applicable to the world and the economy and the world that our high school students are graduating to. So we’re moving to a pre-K to college model.”

Under the proposal, all Chicago Public School students starting with this year’s freshman class would have to show an acceptance letter to a four-year university, a community college, a trade school or apprenticeship, an internship, or a branch of the armed services in order to receive their high school diploma.

(more at CBS)