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Freeport, Roosevelt students to get college classes

Kishore Kuncham, Freeport school superintendent, said he hoped

Photo credit: File, 2009 / Joe Epstein | Kishore Kuncham, Freeport school superintendent, said he hoped to start offering free college coursework as early as summer 2010 to at least a limited number of students.

Students at Roosevelt and Freeport high schools will get expanded choices of free college courses next fall - including, in one case, the teachings of Plato and Aristotle - under a foundation-funded initiative announced Thursday by the State Education Department.

The new Early College High School programs call for Roosevelt to partner with SUNY Old Westbury, while Freeport joins with the C.W....

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