Julie Sweitzer, director of College Readiness Consortium, was recently quoted in the Pioneer Press article, “For St. Paul high school grads, college readiness is an issue.” The article examines the fact that, although low-income high school students in St. Paul are more likely to attend college than others across the state, only 32 percent graduate.

Many of these students begin college by taking remedial courses which are designed to help prepare them for more advanced college work. However, Sweitzer told the Pioneer Press these courses may put students at a disadvantage. “They don’t get college credit for those and they have to pay tuition, so there is a significant impact on a student who is placed into one or more of those courses.”