Conn. bill targets remedial college courses

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A bill that would target remedial college courses in an effort to improve Connecticut's public higher education system has quietly passed both chambers in the General Assembly in the final days of the legislative session.

Earlier this week the state's House of Representatives approved final passage on the legislation, which now awaits the governor's signature.

Under the legislation, classes with lab-like supplements and intensive college readiness programs would need to be put in place by the 2014 fall semester at most Connecticut state universities and community-technical colleges. Additionally, public high schools and these colleges would need to align curricula by the fall semester of 2016.

It's unclear whether Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will sign the bill into law.