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Lessons from the Lone Star State: Designing a Sustainable Financial Model to Expand Early College High School in Texas
Publication Date: February 2009
Publisher(s): Jobs for the Future, Inc.
Author(s): Susan Goldberger; Janet Santos
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Topic: Education (Education policy and planning)
Education (Curriculum)
Keywords: dual enrollment; Texas; early college; K-16
Type: Report
Coverage: Texas
Abstract:
Texas is a national leader in creating early college high schools, an innovative small school model that blends secondary and postsecondary education with intensive supports to increase college readiness and success for underachieving students. The state has 29 early college schools, with more opening in the 2008-2009 academic year, thanks largely to Texas's education reforms favorable to their development.
Texas leaders hope to further expand the model, using it as a priority strategy to boost college success rates. JFF's Susan Goldberger and Janet Santos detail the efforts of El Paso Community College, South Texas College, and their partners to build regional clusters of early college high schools. Their experiences highlight important lessons about how to make the most of a state's public policy environment to create, sustain, and expand early college schools.