JOBS FOR CINCINNATI GRADUATES ANNOUNCES High School Retention and Return to College Rates for class of 2004.

CINCINNATI, OH (December 5, 2005) - Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates, a school-to-career transition program focused on helping at-risk Cincinnati youth graduate from high school, announced today that its' high school retention rate (returned to high school in September 2005) for 2004-05 9th-11th graders is 96%, and its' return to college rate for the Class of 2004 (how many of our 2004 seniors who went to college in the fall of 2004, successfully completed their first year, and returned in the fall of 2005) is 97%!

Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates is part of Jobs for Ohio's Graduates, a statewide program that helps youth successfully transition from school to career upon graduation. Its mission is to assist students with barriers to success, to graduate from high school, and thereafter find and keep quality jobs and enter post-secondary education or training. Launched over two decades ago, JCG and JOG are accredited by Jobs for America's Graduates. JCG and JOG are comprehensive, performance driven strategies for shifting positively the disturbing societal statistics regarding rates of dropout, graduation, and transition from high school to the private sector labor force.