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Seattle's Promise Program for Community College
From the Seattle Times, a story about how the new 2-year City scholarship program will work.Seattle Promise is phasing in over two years, so not all high schools are immediately covered. Seniors at Ingraham, Garfield, Chief Sealth, Cleveland, Rainier Beach and West Seattle high schools are the first beneficiaries.I'm sure the City is examining if they can give K-12 dollars AND Promise dollars to charter school students. I said during the campaign that I did not want K-12 dollars to go to charter schools because I believe it will likely dilute the dollars going to existing SPS programs. I perceive that maybe the levy was so large in order to cover giving K-12 dollars to charter schools and negating my argument. That remains to be seen.
Those schools are already part of a program called the 13th Year Scholarship, which paid for a year of tuition at Seattle’s community colleges through private donations. When voters overwhelmingly approved the Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy, they essentially bought the Class of 2019 at those six schools a second year of tuition-free community college.
Students currently in 11th grade at 11 other Seattle high schools (the Class of 2020) will become eligible for free community college when they graduate. Those schools are: Ballard, The Center School, Franklin, Interagency, Middle College, Nathan Hale, NOVA, Roosevelt, South Lake, World School and Lincoln.
The city’s lawyers are examining whether graduates of Seattle’s public charter schools will also be eligible, said Chris Alejano, who is Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s education policy adviser.
Currently, graduates of specific high schools are assigned to one of the three branches of Seattle Colleges based on geography (Sealth, Cleveland, Rainier Beach and West Seattle students are assigned to go to South Seattle College, for example, while Garfield graduates will go to Seattle Central College, and Ingraham students will go to North Seattle College).
But by 2020, students will have flexibility in choosing which of the three campuses they want to attend.
But I also said that I thought charter school students SHOULD have access to the Promise Program. It's mostly new and entirely different pot of money.
One issue that I have not seen clearly stated is if a student must start community college the fall after they graduate in order to access a Promise scholarship. I would assume that is so.
I also note that there have been recent stories that 4-year colleges/universities are paying more attention to students who do very well at community college. An issue for 4-year institutions is that some students come in not prepared either emotionally or academically for the work.
Most college/universities want students in and out in four years. If you have before you a student who has proven their worth academically AND is likely to be more mature/grounded when they get to a 4-year institution, it may be an easy choice to admit them.
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