From RahmEmanuel: Want to reduce college costs? High schools can help
When politicians discuss the crisis of higher education, they tend to focus on finding ways to reduce the price that students pay for college: tax-deductible savings accounts, better known as 529s; massive student debt cancellation, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed; free college, one of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ key talking points. All those plans presume that cost is the central barrier to college access — and admittedly, in far too many cases, it is.
Take a step back. During the industrial era, the body of knowledge taught in high school was generally considered sufficient, and a college degree was something extra—a credential that some professionals might have needed, but certainly not everyone. That drove a certain mentality: High school graduation was the sine qua non of public education, the crucial demarcation of who could reasonably aspire to the American dream, and who was expected to fall behind. Today, that’s no longer the case.
The implications are real. When one Chicago student, Rikyah Wright, graduated from the South Side’s Kenwood Academy in 2017, the Advanced Placement course credits she earned in high school combined with college credits she earned through her simultaneous enrollment at Harold Washington Community College amounted to an entire semester toward her degree.
Speaking from experience, I know these are worthy investments. Eighty-three percent of Chicago’s public school students live at or below the poverty level. But in large part, because the Windy City’s public schools have the largest International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement programs in the country, our college and community college acceptance rates match the national average.
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