Council Chairman Kwame Brown introduced legislation Wednesday that would require all D.C.-area high school seniors to apply to at least one college or post-secondary institution. Brown’s plan would also mandate that students take the ACT or SAT, and apply for financial aid. According to the Washington Post:
Brown said it’s imperative that D.C. public schools, with a drop-out rate of 43 percent, standardize how students view post-secondary education. He noted that some charter schools already require students to prepare for the SAT or ACT and apply for college.
“I’m not saying everyone should go to college, but my goodness, we have to get more young folks prepared to go to college if they want to go to college,” Brown said in an interview. “A lot of them don’t even know how to prepare and apply to college.”
According to Brown, 11 states mandate that high school students take either the SAT or ACT exams. But it was not immediately known whether any other state mandates that a student apply to a post-secondary institution prior to graduation from high school.
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