>Success in a hardscrabble city, one student at a time
The high school graduation rate at this inner city school is 100 percent. Ditto for kids going on to college.
Oh, and scholarships for those colleges?
How about 48 kids splitting $6 million toward those hefty college bills, including some of the top schools in the country, like Princeton and Cornell universities.
That’s the track record at St. Mary of the Assumption High School in the city of Elizabeth, a hardscrabble place like virtually all the rest of New Jersey’s cities and among the 13 that would be covered by the Opportunity Scholarship Act.
“We work hard at it,” says Janet Malko, principal of the school for the past 23 years. (Hooker, PolitickerNJ)
