Article questioning the use of AP classes in rankings

[mitchklong]

<p>

“It doesn’t cost the taxpayer anything” Really? “The state of Minnesota pays the cost of tuition and required textbooks.” I suppose if you’re a taxpayer who doesn’t live in Minnesota, it doesn’t cost you anything. But then you can’t enroll your kid in the program either.

</p>

<p>Really. Costs are offset on a course by course basis from what would normally go to the high school. For example, let say the state normally pays each high school 1500 per pupil per semester. If that student enrolls 1/2 time in PSEO then the school gets $750 and the college gets $750. I made up those numbers, but you get the idea.</p>

<p>

In Minnesota, do these programs include getting high schools and colleges to coordinate scheduling to make it convenient for high school students to take college courses from a scheduling and commuting standpoint?

</p>

<p>Students are assigned both a college couselor (from the clollege) and a HS counselor who are supposed to assist with this, but its a challenge. In particular in our case the college semesters run o a different schedule than HS, at times overlapping. </p>