It was really a remarkable moment Tuesday morning at Benito Juárez Community Academy in Pilsen as roughly 1,000 students were told they had basically won the college lottery.
The goal is to raise $1 billion over the next 10 years to send thousands of Chicago public high school students to college debt-free.
"Today was just the culmination of a lot of work over the past few months but as you can see from the kids' reaction, it was worth it and amazing," Jackson said. Juarez is one of five high schools that will receive the promise this week with a total of about 4,000 students will be getting their college costs paid for in full.Students who talked to FOX 32 Tuesday morning were stunned by the news.
"It was just unbelievable," one student said. "I was sitting in between two of my friends, who are also seniors, we were just in awe listening to what they were saying. As soon as we heard it, we just couldn't believe it.
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