"Saleem Ghubril is relishing an early hint of success in his second year heading a college scholarship program that's attracting national attention," reports
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Because of the Pittsburgh Promise, 22 more black male graduates went to college in 2009 than the year before--113 compared with 91.
Ghubril contemplates, "At the end of the day, 'failure' for the Pittsburgh Promise will be, 10 years will have passed, and 15,000 kids will have gone to college. So if the worst thing we can do is send 15,000 kids to college, I can live with that."
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