Thursday, January 05, 2023
WUWM
Milwaukee has lots of nonprofits and educational institutions working to help students go to and stay in college. But the city still faces a college completion “crisis.” Only about two in three Milwaukee students graduate from high school; of that group, just 36 percent enrolled in college in 2020. A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum explores Milwaukee’s leaky education pipeline and outlines how the city’s college access programs can better address the challenge.