Chicago Tribune
More Chicago public school graduates earn a bachelor's degree in six years than researchers originally thought, according to corrected data from the Consortium on Chicago School Research released on Wednesday.
Figures from the updated study, which tracked Chicago high school students who graduated in 1998 and 1999, found that of those who immediately went to a four-year college, 45 percent earned a bachelor's degree within six years, compared with 64 percent of students nationally. The original report, released earlier this year, put the number at 35 percent...