As the social studies department chair at La Follette High School, Dan Kromer oversees the Advanced Placement course options, also known as AP classes. The nationally recognized college-level courses range from U.S. history to African American studies to psychology.
Kromer also knows some students who leave La Follette to take classes at Madison College and are essentially full-time students there. They come back from time to time to ask for letters of recommendation and participate in certain school activities, Kromer said.
There is one college credit option he hopes his social studies department will someday offer: dual credit courses, which are taught by teachers at the high school in subjects like math, writing and reading…