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Thousands of recent high school graduates are not ready for college.
One in two Florida students in 2010-2011 failed at least one section of the state college placement test. Those students then had to take — and pay for — a remedial course in reading, writing and/or math.
From 2004 to 2011, Florida’s remedial education costs for both students and schools ballooned from $118 million to $168 million.
Reporters Sarah Gonzalez of NPR’s StateImpact Florida and Mc Nelly Torres of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting have written a series on Florida’s growing need for remedial education among high school graduates and older students.
Join us on Wed., Dec. 19, at 4 p.m. on the website of WLRN-Miami Herald News to speak with Gonzalez and Torres about how we got here and what can be done to fix it. You can also join the discussion via Twitter by using the hashtag #NPRedchat.