State may not raise bar for college
Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
Published May 12, 2007 at midnight
The state higher-education department may back away from college admission requirements opposed by many public school officials.
Two of the more controversial requirements - a fourth year of math and two years of a foreign language - probably will be eliminated in revised admission standards being drafted now, state higher education director David Skaggs said Friday.
The revised standards will go before the Colorado Commission on Higher Education at a special meeting July 10, Skaggs said. Any change must be approved by the panel.
The additional math and language requirements are effective for students who will enter state colleges in the fall of 2010.
Opposition has come from rural school superintendents who have trouble attracting teachers with special skills. Music and art teachers also are opposed, fearing that students will have less time for those pursuits.
"There is just a question of practicability and affordability in some districts," Skaggs said.
New standards in effect for students entering in the fall of 2008 will not change.
morsonb@RockyMountainNews.com or 303 954-5209
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