Virtual College of Texas

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Michigan has something somewhat similar in Michigan Colleges online, but the pricing isn't so good. In many cases, you're still paying the out of district pricing. And Washtenaw CC in Ann Arbor charges a few dollars more for online classes to everyone living in the USA then in district tuition. So why do students use the collaborative? Because the home school agrees to do the billing to the student, so the courses are eligible for financial aid.

That's another reason. You can't receive financial aid at more than one school, and you have to take a certain number of credits at one school in order to qualify for the aid.

Yes, we do have districts (I think all of our CC's are in one district or another), but not in the same sense; it doesn't limit who can go to that school in any way, just in how it gets paid for. Anyone can go to any CC no matter which district you happen to live in.

Anyone can attend any of the CCs in Texas, but they will pay different rates. CCs in Texas are funded by the state and participating local governments, so there is an in-district, in-state, and out-of-state rate. I lived in a city and school district that paid no taxes to any community college system, so the best I could get was the in-state rate.