{"id":475945,"date":"2010-03-26T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"2344"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:41:21","slug":"running-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475945","title":{"rendered":"Running Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>Published Mar. 24, 2010<\/SPAN><BR>Letters to the Editor, Tri-City Herald<BR><BR>High school upperclassmen should take advantage of the opportunity of the Running Start program.<\/P><P>Running Start offers high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to attend courses at Columbia Basin College, where they receive high school and college credit.&nbsp; The tuition is paid for by the state, so the student is only required to pay for books and additional fees.<BR><BR>There are many benefits to the program.&nbsp; Running Start gives high schoolers a taste of college life, so students are more prepared if they decide to go off to a four-year university.&nbsp; Also, an associate\u0092s transfer degree can be earned, saving the student quite a bit of money in schooling.<\/P><P>The professors at CBC are friendly, intelligent and easy to work with.&nbsp; It has been a great experience for me and could greatly change another person\u0092s life.&nbsp; I would recommend Running Start to every high school junior and senior out there.<\/P><P>CHARLES CONSELMAN<BR>Richland<BR><EM><BR>Additional news stories can be accessed online at the <\/EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.tri-cityherald.com\/\" ><EM>Tri-City Herald<\/EM><\/A><EM>.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published Mar. 24, 2010Letters to the Editor, Tri-City HeraldHigh school upperclassmen should take advantage of the opportunity of the Running Start program.Running Start offers high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to attend courses at Columbia Basin College, where they receive high school and college credit.&nbsp; The tuition is paid for by the state, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}