From Diverse Issues in Higher Education (probably a lib’ publication):

A study of Ohio’s Post Secondary Enrollment Options program finds that nine of 10 of its participants are White, and most enrollees come from suburban rather than urban or rural high school districts. The study by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Ohio’s largest education philanthropy, also takes PSEO to task for lacking any data showing PSEO’s positive impact on college outcomes. The study comes as the Ohio General Assembly prepares to expand the program at the behest of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland.

“It’s certainly worth celebrating that Ohio’s PSEO policy has allowed thousands of high school students to earn college and high school credit at the same time at no cost to them,” says Nancy Taylor, senior public policy officer with KnowledgeWorks. However, “poor data has restricted the state’s ability to track such fundamental matters as whether the policy encourages students who would not otherwise have been college-bound to attend college.”

In fact, according to the report, “The Promise of Dual Enrollment: Assessing Ohio’s Early College Access Policy,” increasing access to college for underrepresented groups is not the focus of PSEO, and KnowledgeWorks policy officer Dr. Greg Harris considers that “a flaw in the policy.”

“Ohio’s percentage of high school students is 15.5 percent African-American, but only 6.5 percent of those that actually accessed the policy were African-American. Ninety percent are White, two-thirds of those are female and the students who accessed the policy disproportionally hail from suburban districts,” Harris says.

So it doesn’t help students that are most in need- Then why is Gov. Strickland spending more of your tax dollars on it?