POLITICAL CRITICAL: Catherine Ferguson Academy for Girls

The Catherine Ferguson Academy (CFA) is a public high school founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1986 for pregnant girls and teen mothers. It is named after a freed slave who dedicated herself to education, though she was never allowed to learn to read or attend school as a child. CFA is housed in a former elementary school building which is about 90 years old, and has an urban farm in its backyard where the students learn to grow vegetables as well as other skills required for self-sufficiency. Most students come from lower income backgrounds about 78 percent qualify for free or reduced meal programs, and 97 percent are of African American descent. CFA has a 97 percent attendance rate, a 90 percent high school graduation rate, and the vast majority of students go on to either a two or a four year college.

Catherine Ferguson Academy set to close by the Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder appointed emergency manger(Roy Roberts)  "found" a way to keep the School open.  It will be a Charter School ran by a corporation. 

Principal Andrews received an early morning phone call on the day the school was to close saying come down to the emergency manger's office the school will not REMAIN OPEN!  In nine years, 90% of pregnant teens have go to college.

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