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Good morning! Reema Amin here. If you’re coming off of spring break, I hope it was great.

Our top story today is a deep dive from my colleague, Mila Koumpilova, about the rise of dual credit classes at Chicago Public Schools and how they haven’t earned universal support.

CPS students took more than 13,000 dual credit classes last year, more than double the number pre-pandemic. The effort has won praise for sending more kids to college prepared and with less debt. But schools like Michele Clark High School on the West Side have had to course correct as they pushed students to sign up — and on some campuses, increases in dual credit participation has not yet meant more college enrollment and persistence, a Chalkbeat analysis showed.

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