Dr. Robert Bolla, YSU's dean of the college of Arts and Sciences, presented YSU trustees this week

Dr. Robert Bolla, YSU's dean of the college of Arts and Sciences, presented YSU trustees this week with a plan for a new high school for at-risk Youngstown students at YSU. Below are details of the plan.
The school would open this fall with 75 ninth-grade students and grow by 75 or 100 students per year in each of the following three years.
Students will graduate in four years with a high-school diploma and up to 60 college-level credits -- enough for an associate's degree or two years toward a bachelor's degree.
The Youngstown city school district would hire and pay a dean and teachers. It also would pay 51 percent of tuition costs, and all course fees and book costs. YSU would pay the remaining tuition costs, using money from certain state grants for programs that promote college attendance among at-risk students and timely college graduations.
Under that plan, YSU would face an unmet cost of about $17,000 in the first year, about $4,000 in fiscal year 2006 and about $47,000 in fiscal year 2008. In fiscal year 2005, it would have a profit of about $48,000. Overall, in the first four years, YSU would have to come up with about $21,000 from other sources.
The school would be housed on the second floor of Fedor Hall, renovated to create several offices, five classrooms, a science classroom, a computer lab, a clinic, a mentoring area and a conference room.
If deemed prepared, students will take one class in the second semester of their first year. They will take more college courses as they progress, most in the 11th- and 12th-grades.
Source: YSU