Chalkbeat Chicago

Alan Quintana’s last year of high school at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy looked a lot more like the second year of college, as he finished an associate degree in web development at Daley College.

“It was really rough at times,” he said, as he juggled both high school requirements and the tech classes at Daley. It taught him to manage time, said Quintana, who was among scores of high school students who participated Tuesday in a ceremony at Malcolm X College honoring college enrollees and attended by outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel and city colleges Chancellor Juan Salgado...