Dive Brief:

• Students who have recently graduated from a Florida high school can soon skip remedial classes at some Florida colleges, even if tests show they may not be ready for college-level work.
• Right now, as many as two-thirds of high school graduates entering Florida colleges had to take remedial classes because of poor scores on a placement test.
• The non-credit remedial classes will be encouraged but not required. 

Dive Insight:

Remedial help will still be offered, but not in the form of full-term classes. Short refresher courses, online classes and classes that combine college-level and remedial work will be offered. One student who took a remedial English class gets to one possible problem with the new policy: "If you let students decide, no one will want to take the classes."