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Article: Lofty goals make college bill worthwhile
- Article from:
- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- March 27, 2007
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Good, but not good enough to accomplish what it intends.
That's our opinion of LD 1040, House Speaker Glenn Cummings bill
to make the preparation of a college application a mandatory
graduation requirement for all Maine high school seniors. It would
mandate the completion of the application, not its submission, as an
important real-life lesson.
A public hearing on LD 1040 is scheduled for 1 p.m. today before
the Legislature's Education Committee.
Cummings sees this bill as an efficient method of boosting Maine's
percentage of college-educated residents, the lowest in New England,
by putting completed applications into the hands of high school
students who otherwise may feel higher education ...