The timing was clearly designed to take some edge off controversy surrounding that plan, which replaces preferential admission policies with a plan that guarantees college admission to the top 20 percent of each high school's graduating class. Much criticism of the plan has come from minority leaders, though Bush insists that black and Hispanic children will have greater opportunities now to get into college. I can assure you we're not stepping back one foot as it relates to the struggle for civil rights. Administrators from UCF, Evans High and Carver Middle School are meeting to figure out new ways the college can help students and teachers there, said Sandra Robinson, dean of UCF's College of Education. It's possible, for example, that high school students could spend time at the college seeing what is involved in majoring in a certain subject, Robinson said.
Dual enrollment allows high school students to earn college credit.