What happens in Chicago shouldn't stay in Chicago; it should come to Louisville!

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We often hear from apologists for failing public schools that the reason for low graduation rates is poverty and broken homes. Don't tell that to the successful faculty and student body at Chicago's Urban Prep Academy for Young Men, the nation's first all-male charter school.

For four consecutive years, not only have 100 percent of Urban Prep students graduated from high school, but 100 percent have been accepted at four-year colleges and universities. More than 120 colleges and universities hand out $6 million in scholarships to 2013 graduates of Urban Prep academy.

Pretty impressive, isn't it, considering most of these students came from broken homes in impoverished, violent and gang-ridden neighborhoods in the Windy City.

Imagine what could happen with an Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in, say, the city of Louisville's West End -- where results would, no doubt, drown out the excuses that we too often hear.