The Detroit News is highlighting ideas from various groups to promote discussion on reform, restructuring government and the economy.
Full high school access to two-year colleges

Idea 45: Let high school students choose to take some or all required courses for a high school diploma from community colleges.

Why: Michigan pays twice when high schools and community colleges overlap services and offer the same courses. In addition, studies estimate that community colleges spend one-third of their time providing remedial education, essentially doing the job that high schools are supposed to do. Allowing students to skip some high school extracurricular courses and move on to college earlier would lessen this redundancy and give many students a jump start on job training or a four-year degree.

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