New High School/Higher Ed. Collaborations

The Minnesota Department of Education asked the CSC to help 8 district schools and 1 charter school develop new collaborations with higher education institutions that could result in students earning an A.A degree before graduating from high school.   The participating schools were: Anoka High School, Austin High School, Bloomington Kennedy High School, Brooklyn Center Learning Center, El Colegio Charter High School, Bug-o-nay-ge-shig School, Cook County High School, and Mounds View High School.  Using Voluntary Public School Choice (VPSC) funds from the US Department of Education, this was a collaboration involving MDE, CSC, the Office of Higher Education and the Minnesota Colleges and Universities System (MnSCU).  Read more about the effort here.

Current and former students who  participated in a meeting at the MN Department of Education with these collaborative High School/Higher Ed. partners include:

Tom Gonzalez (City Academy High School grad, PSEO participant, Concordia College Graduate):
 Tom Gonzalez

Grace Anderson (Long Praire/Grey Eagle High School grad, current Northwestern College student who entered college with 67 college credits):

 Grace Anderson

Bo Martizna (below left) and Christopher W. Adermann (below right), who are both participating in Irondale High School’s effort to help students earn a number of college credits – potentially including an A.A. Degree before graduating from high school:

Bo Martizna Christopher W. Adermann

 

 

For more information, please browse the following posts describing these collaborations:

 
New high school/college collaborations are win-win-win
 
Educators create effective systems for students
 
Colleen Wambach & Fred Easter led MN Dept of Ed/CSC effort to increase Dual Credit courses in 9 MN public schools
Colleen Wambach and Fred Easter lead the Mn Dept of Ed/CSC effort to increase number of Dual Credit courses by 8 Minnesota district public schools and one charter public school.
Colleen Wambach and Fred Easter led the Mn Dept of Ed/CSC effort to increase number of Dual Credit courses by 8 Minnesota district public schools and one charter public school.
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