The state currently has around nine different programs where learners can earn college credits and quality credentials in high school. The task force spent its time together examining these existing programs, including their funding and outcomes, and identified a number of challenges in the current system. The task force determined that the current postsecondary and workforce readiness system should be wholly and thoroughly reexamined. When reviewing and considering changes to the system, the task force emphasized the need for a learner-centered approach. Because the current system grew out of multiple programs developed over a number of years, it was not necessarily designed with learner needs at the center. As such, simply tinkering around the edges of what is in place in the current system is not likely to achieve the goals and outcomes desired.
