http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/remediation-costing-colleges-and-students-millions/ Education News Fri, 17 May 2013 18:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/remediation-costing-colleges-and-students-millions/#comment-11688 Community College Spotlight | LePage: High schools should pay for remediation Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:31:15 +0000 http://www.educationnews.org/?p=216912#comment-11688 [...] Remediation is a costly burden for students and colleges, reports Education News. Scott Knapp, president of Central Maine Community College in Auburn, said that his school feels like it has no choice but to spend its limited budget on remediation instead of capital and infrastructure upgrades or improving their programs or hiring more instructors. Even if the expenses were fully reimbursed by tuition payments, on the whole, he’d rather that his school was out of the remediation business, Knapp added. [...] [...] Remediation is a costly burden for students and colleges, reports Education News. Scott Knapp, president of Central Maine Community College in Auburn, said that his school feels like it has no choice but to spend its limited budget on remediation instead of capital and infrastructure upgrades or improving their programs or hiring more instructors. Even if the expenses were fully reimbursed by tuition payments, on the whole, he’d rather that his school was out of the remediation business, Knapp added. [...]

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