Texas poised to fund community colleges based on student outcomes

[harumph]

6. Depends on the Community College

Dallas County for example, has an excellent system of several campuses that offer a wide range
of specialties - and on the whole, the teaching staff is great. Many kids are opting for this route
to take their first two years of core classes and then transferring to a 4 year. Recently,
scholastically serious HS juniors have been transferring directly into the Dallas College system
and taking college credit courses (not AP mind you - but the real deal). They end up
with a HS Diploma + an Associate Degree at the same time they would merely have graduated HS.

Edited to add: mind you, these are challenging courses with serious students. Not all
community colleges are at the same level - depending largely from the area high schools they are
pulling from.