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Students Launch Statewide Project to Make 2013 the Year of the Student

MEDIA RELEASE
June 13, 2012

Students Announce Project Calling on State Leaders
to Do the Right Thing for Education in 2013

Growing Statewide Coalition Launches Effort
to Make 2013 the " Year of the Student"

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Revised Opportunity Note reflects amendments made in the Senate to SB 07-148. The Fast College Fast Jobs bill allow eligible school districts to contract with higher education institutions to create programs through which participating high school students could simultaneously complete, within five years, both a high school diploma and an associates degree or career and technical education certificate.

Leaving school ready to succeed is the next important opportunity gateway. For much of the last century, so long as you were a loyal employee and worked hard, it was possible to get and keep a good paying job that had decent benefits even if you did not have a high school diploma. Those days are gone. Today, the successful completion of high school is virtually indispensable to one???s prospects for success.

During the Great Depression, this community responded to hardship by becoming a college town ??? it looked to the future and created an institution that would both strengthen the economy and provide new opportunities for students and families facing great uncertainty and dislocation.

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This white paper looks closely at the second half of the P-16 concept, measuring Colorado???s success in moving students through an educational pipeline from high school through college.

This brief examines overall college enrollment in Colorado and the United States, and shows the disadvantages low-income and minority students face in going to college.

This white paper is the third in a seven-part series that uses state and national data to evaluate Colorado???s performance in educating young adults, and to identify promising remedies for improvement. It also compares the graduation rates for public, private nonprofit and private for profit colleges, and the range of degrees that Colorado students earn.

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