Brunner, EricHarvey, JudithHolmberg, ErikOwumi, Anthonia2019-10-032019-10-032019-05https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208471Capstone paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Affairs degree.In 1985, the Minnesota state legislature enacted Minn. Stat. Sec. 124D.09 entitled, “The Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Act” (the “PSEO Act”). Subd. 1 states the following: The purpose of this section is to promote rigorous academic pursuits and to provide a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling secondary pupils to enroll full time or part time in nonsectarian courses or programs in eligible postsecondary institutions as defined in subdivision 3.1 The State withholds allocated school district funds from the student’s home district to pay tuition. The legislation was promoted to ensure all Minnesota high school students have access to a rigorous curriculum. Students need to be of high-class rank, high GPA and to be accepted at an eligible post-secondary institution. If accepted, they may attend classes on college campuses during the school year. Transportation from schools was subsidized for some districts at the beginning of the program, but that subsidy ended over the next few years. As the cost of college rose, free tuition for dual credit became more critical to students, but the costs of this program to individual school districts increased even more. Legislation expanding college programs to high schools, participation agreements between high schools and postsecondary institutions, and expanding opportunities to take career and technical classes helped make dual credit more accessible to students but affected growth in PSEO on-campus participation.enBarriers and Challenges to Participation in Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) for Minnesota StudentsThesis or Dissertation