New Jersey libraries offering high school degrees [View all]

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Jersey-libraries-offering-high-school-degrees-5803852.php

Adults will be able to get online high school degrees — paid for with scholarships — through a new program being launched by the New Jersey State Library....

Nearly one in eight adults 25 or older in New Jersey does not have a high school degree, according to the U.S. Census....

The New Jersey State Library is using grants from the state government and the Clinton Global Initiative to offer online degrees through six libraries that won competitive grants of their own: Camden, Elizabeth, Long Branch, Scotch Plains, Somerset County and Trenton.

Students are to be screened before they are allowed in. After they enroll at libraries, they will be allowed to do online coursework anywhere.

Scotch Plains? Somerset County? (both wealthy, white suburbia) But no Newark, Jersey City or Paterson?!