The Pacific Research Institute has a report out on the price tag for remediation at california colleges.

The report seeks to measure the expense involved in remediating students who leave high school without the skills they need to succeed in college in California. It's a very broad, inclusive approach to calculating that cost - taking into account everything from lost wages of students who enter college in need of remediation to the expenses business face when they have to provide extra trainings to such students, and the figure the report comes up with is similarly broad - at least $3.9 billion, and maybe as much as $13.9 billion.

The actual cost of instrution to remediate those students is around $274 million, according to the report...


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