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Article: Students are earning free college credit ; Only 2 percent of Ohio high school students take advantage of early college enrollment
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- February 11, 2008
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DAYTON -- Thousands of high school students already earn college
credit for free under the state's Post-Secondary Enrollment Options
program, taking as many college classes as they want with the
approval of their high schools.
Despite its availability, the program hasn't been popular since
its inception in 1989.
A few problems with the program will need to be fixed to increase
participation if Gov. Ted Strickland's Seniors to Sophomores program
is to be a success, according to school and state officials and
education policy groups.
Strickland proposed the plan last week in his state-ofthe-state
speech as a way to get more students into college in Ohio.
While participation in PSEO has ...