The legislature hereby declares that secondary school students should be challenged continuously in order to maintain their interests in the pursuit of education and skills critical to success in the modern world. It is the purpose and intention of the Kansas challenge to secondary school students act to provide a means that school districts, in cooperation with institutions of postsecondary education, may provide new and exciting challenges to secondary school students by encouraging such students to take full advantage of the wealth of postsecondary educational opportunities available in this state.