MAPP and the Increasing Cost of College

MAPP and YOU

The passage of the MAPP bill (HB493) was an historic event that will benefit Idaho families in several ways. I would like to mention one of those ways.

Students using MAPP can reduce their cost of college education. Idaho colleges and universities raised their tuition almost 10 percent for this next school year. MAPP allows students to challenge classes beginning in elementary school and finish the 1-12 curriculum up to three years early. This means that your child could then take college level classes, in the high school, for one or two years and obtain an associate degree at very little cost by age 18.

Your child could then leave home and enroll in the U of I or ISU or BSU or any other public institution of higher learning and take only two years to obtain a college degree or professional technical certification.

For example, tuition at ISU cost $5,416 per year. The four year cost of tuition would be$21,664. If a student has an associate degree after leaving high school then the cost for two years of school would only be $10,832 a savings of $10,832.

This possibility was brought to your courtesy of the Idaho State Legislature and Governor Otter with bi-partisan support.

Hug your child and then thank your legislator.