Elenamary

A free ticket to college
Lincoln High students to go on state’s dime
By Allison Sherry

By withholding hard-earned high school diplomas and interpreting a state law literally that guarantees an education to students up to 21 years old, principal Scott Mendelsberg is sending 100 Denver seniors to college this fall – and he’s charging the state…

…A little more than 86 percent of the roughly 1,300 Lincoln students are Latino, and about 67 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, a guideline for poverty…

…Of 238 graduates last school year, only 40 went to college. This year, when about 200 students walk in gowns on Saturday, 125 are slated to head to college this fall – 100 of them enrolled in his program….