"The state money for Metro and the nine other Ohio high schools that give college access to low-income and first-generation college-goers has dried up, and some of those schools say the cuts could kill them," the Columbus Dispatch reports. "The state set aside roughly $7 million for each of the past two years for the specialty schools to pay tuition for students to take courses at partner colleges. Money for early-college programs was one of many education-related items cut in the two-year state budget. ... Few states set aside money for early-college schools, said Michael Webb of Jobs for the Future, a group that oversees early-college schools nationwide on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Georgia did, but it cut the state contribution this year in response to the bad economy."