Ohio colleges take classes to high schools

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio universities and high schools are working together to adapt a two-year-old program and bring college course work and credits to high school seniors.

Under the state’s Seniors to Sophomores initiative, the high school students were supposed to spend their final year on a college campus, enrolled full- or part-time.

Some rural districts, however, found students were too far from a participating college to attend classes there. Some students also decided they didn’t want to miss out on senior year with their high school classmates.

So, if students wouldn’t come to them, some colleges are going to the students. Southeast Ohio’s Hocking College, for example, now provides classes in high schools. Other Ohio colleges offer online courses through the program.