Earning College Credit in High School

If you’re a North Carolina resident, an opportunity to save a lot of money on higher education is staring you right in the face. The State of North Carolina provides two paths for high-school students to earn college credit tuition-free, while still enrolled in a public high school. These paths represent the evolution of efforts to keep students focused on higher education while still in secondary school. They’re two of the three components of the NC Department of Public Instruction’s Career and College Promise Program (CCP). (More on the third path, Career and Technical Education, in another blog post.) The path that you’ve probably heard about, early college, requires students to attend one of the specially designated WCPSS “academies,” but there’s another path, too: dual […]

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