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Student re-entry bill gets a makeover
Written by Todd Engdahl on Mar 11th, 2010. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org
Well, as usual, three important and unanimously agreed upon (“passed out”?) bills were glossed over in favor of the sensationalist one about violent student offenders, but I’d like to comment on the importance of those other bills: House Bills 10-1208 and 10-1036, in particular.
The first is “designed to ease the transition from community to four-year colleges” by clarifying what credits transfer where. This is an enormously important issue. I work for a college planning and savings company, MyEdu. What we find is that students don’t understand their graduation requirements, so they take extra courses, spend extra time & money, take up more school resources, and often fail to thrive at all. Only 56% of students of graduating within six years, so this is no small matter.
Transferring credits is a potentially huge part of the solution. MyEdu is in the process of developing a Credit Manager to help students do just that, but nothing can beat a legislated requirement to simplify requirements and create a standard template for recording credits in the first place.
As for HB10-1036, I can only applaud the State’s effort to increase accessibility and transparency of education-related funding and other information.
Thanks EdNews for reporting this somewhere!