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The School of Music was founded in 1912 and is located on DePaul's Lincoln Park Campus. Dedicated to excellence in music teaching and performance, the school offers high-caliber, challenging programs of musical and academic study.
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-- The proportion of high school graduates enrolling directly into colleges has dropped over the past decade, from 61 percent in 1995 to 52 percent in 2005. -- Only 35 percent of high school freshmen enroll in college within four years, as compared to 53 percent among the top states, according to an October 2006 Institute for Higher Educational Leadership and Policy report. -- Most Californians (84 percent) say that affording college is at least somewhat of a problem for students today, with 53 percent calling it a big problem. An October 2007 Public Policy Institute of California Statewide Survey ... found that two-thirds of Californians believe that the cost of a college education prevents qualified, motivated students from pursuing higher education. -- Three-fourths of Latino young adults not currently in college would have been more likely to attend college if they had better information about financial aid, according to a recent Tomas Rivera Policy Institute survey. More than half of all Latino parents and 43 percent of Latino young adults could not name a single source of financial aid.
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Graduation Competency Assessments are a series of tests that will be given throughout high school and could be used in place of final exams. Students would take the tests when they feel prepared. For example, a student who completes an algebra course could immediately take the Graduation Competency Assessment in algebra. Students who do not pass the first time would receive extra help and have multiple opportunities to retake the test. The commonwealth will pay the full cost for developing and administering Graduation Competency Assessments.
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High school seniors who attend a workshop and apply for a Cal Grant and other financial aid by the March 2 deadline can qualify for an extra $1,000 scholarship. At least one $1,000 scholarship is offered at each workshop to encourage students to apply for a Cal Grant, and up to 500 scholarships will be awarded statewide after the March 2 deadline. The College Access Foundation of California is providing a generous grant of $800,000 to finance statewide and local Los Angeles area scholarships. Since 2005, the Foundation -- the largest of its kind in California -- has provided more than $7 million in scholarship program funding to Commission-related programs, such as the California Cash for College and Cal-SOAP outreach programs to encourage financially needy students to apply for state and federal aid.
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GSN's National Vocabulary Championship (NVC) is a nationwide academic competition that offers high school students the opportunity to win money toward college tuition through local and national events. Created by GSN, along with educational partner The Princeton Review, the NVC is open to eligible high school students in the 50 United States and District of Columbia. The NVC is the cornerstone of GSN's award-winning "Win With Words" public service campaign dedicated to improving language arts skills in high schools by promoting the value of an enhanced vocabulary, providing free Princeton Review study materials and engaging students in wordplay. For free vocabulary study materials or for more information on GSN's National Vocabulary Championship, please visit http://www.winwithwords.com.
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Among students in grades 9 through 12 an estimated 43 percent reported drinking alcohol anywhere and 4 percent reported drinking at school during the 30 days prior to the 2005 survey. There were no detectable differences in percentages across grade levels in the likelihood of drinking on school property, but students in higher grades were more likely than students in lower grades to report drinking alcohol anywhere. In 2005, 25 percent of students reported that someone had offered, sold, or given them illegal drugs on school property in the 12 months prior to the survey.
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