Blueprint’s broken promise: Maryland education reform plan rolls back expanded access to college classes for high schoolers

Halee Simons, 18, is headed into her junior year at Atlanta’s Spelman College after racking up 32 college credits at the Community College of Baltimore County that she didn’t have to pay for. She earned many of them while still attending Chesapeake High School in Essex, from which she graduated a year early in 2023. “It was very busy and time-consuming,” said Simons, who was dually enrolled in high school and college classes during the school year, as well as during winter and summer breaks.