Alabama's two-year college chancellor wants to make college courses free for high school students [View all]

Alabama's two-year college chancellor wants to make enrollment in community college courses free for high school students. Speaking today at the Economic Development Association of Alabama's winter conference, Community College System Chancellor Mark Heinrich said he is working with legislators to bring a bill as early as the 2013 session that would make dual enrollment in community college courses free to high school students.

"What I'm suggesting at this point is that state of Alabama work out some sort of situation that would allow any high school student who is interested in dual enrollment to participate in that," he said.

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"The suggestion from some of the folks at the high schools is that we would go from about 10 percent participation to maybe 40 or 50 percent in dual enrollment," he said.

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"We've spent a decade preparing students for a test rather than preparing students for adulthood and for a career and college and a lifetime of learning," he said.


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