2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 — Education
RS 17:187.3 — Dual enrollment; state and local board requirements; community or technical college and board of supervisors requirements


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§187.3. Dual enrollment; state and local board requirements; community or technical college and board of supervisors requirements

A.(1)(a) Beginning on the effective date of this Subpart, the state board and the board of supervisors shall meet together and establish the basis for schools under their jurisdiction to reciprocally provide articulated postsecondary technical college credit and Carnegie unit credit toward high school graduation for successful completion of units of training regardless of whether the training occurred in a community or technical college or a public secondary school. Such basis shall be established no later than January 1, 2007.

(b) At a minimum, such basis shall include:

(i) A description of students determined to be most likely to benefit from dual enrollment. In developing this description, the state board and the board of supervisors shall consider the characteristics that identify students who have demonstrated apparent, but unrealized, potential and who appear likely to become dropouts. Encouraging the participation of such students shall be a goal and a main focus of partnership agreements between the local boards and community and technical colleges.

(ii) A list of the course work that can be most effectively offered on a dual enrollment basis. In making such analysis, the boards shall examine what courses have been effectively offered on a dual enrollment basis across the state, the availability of courses, access to courses, preparation necessary for such courses, and other information relevant to making workable, desirable, and effective options available to potential dropouts.

(iii) An evaluation of the resources and facilities, both secondary and postsecondary available and applicable to dual enrollment partnerships. Such evaluation shall include information regarding the best practice for secondary schools and postsecondary institutions to most effectively share such facilities and resources and serve students.

(iv) An exposition and evaluation of the financial resources available to support the costs of dual enrollment partnerships. The exposition shall include financing sources that are public and private, elementary and secondary and postsecondary, and state, federal, and local.

(v) Recommendations and advice regarding constructing a financing scheme that is adequate to provide high quality programming for students and meet the needs of participating secondary and postsecondary institutions.

(2)(a) Once established, the basis and any other directions and information for the accomplishment of partnership agreements to provide such reciprocal articulated training shall be sent by the state board to all local boards and each public secondary school not under the jurisdiction of a local board, and by the board of supervisors to all community and technical colleges.

(b) Every community and technical college shall notify every local school board and every public secondary school not under the jurisdiction of a local board which is located in the institution's service area of the technical training programs offered at the institution and shall meet with appropriate representatives of the local board and the secondary schools not under the jurisdiction of a local board to work at establishing partnership agreements with regard to sharing students and articulation agreements aimed at enrolling not less than ten percent of the potential dropouts identified by the local board in the secondary schools under its jurisdiction based on the provisions of this Subpart.

(c) Every local board and every public secondary school not under the jurisdiction of a local board which has a mission that includes technical training shall meet with the community and technical colleges from which notification has been received and shall work at establishing and providing for partnership agreements to implement programs of technical training for shared students aimed at enrolling not less than ten percent of the potential dropouts identified by the local board in the secondary schools under its jurisdiction. Every local board and the governing authority of every public secondary school not under the jurisdiction of a local board shall consider, approve, and modify as necessary any partnership agreement submitted to them under which work undertaken and successfully completed at a community or technical college shall articulate into units of credit toward the requirements for high school graduation. The head of each community and technical college shall consider, approve, and modify as necessary any partnership agreement submitted to them under which work undertaken and successfully completed at a public secondary school shall articulate into units of credit toward the requirements for completion of a technical training program in the postsecondary institution. Each such plan shall be in conformity to guidelines issued by the state board and the board of supervisors regarding dual enrollment programs and other programs for shared students receiving technical training.

(d)(i) The head of each community and technical college shall report each agreement established to share students to the board of supervisors and shall provide continuing reports regarding the implementation of such agreements.

(ii) Each local board and the governing authority of any public secondary school participating in an agreement with any community or technical college to share students shall report the establishment of such agreements to the state board and shall provide continuing reports regarding the implementation of such agreements.

B.(1) All local boards and each public secondary school not under the jurisdiction of a local board and all community and technical colleges which have established an approved partnership agreement shall be invited to implement their agreements for partnerships as provided for in this Subsection and to apply to participate in a pilot year of sharing students.

(2) During the 2007-2008 school year, at least two such partnerships shall be selected by the state board to undertake sharing not less than ten percent of the potential dropouts identified by the local board in the secondary schools under its jurisdiction and providing for the dual enrollment of such students as provided in this Subpart. The state board and the board of supervisors shall provide assistance and support to the piloting partnerships.

(3) The effect of the implementation on students, the difficulties of such partnership, and all other relevant information shall be reported by the participating schools and institutions to the board of supervisors and the state board. Based on the information gained during the pilot year, the state board may determine to extend the pilot for a second school year and increase the number of partnerships for a second pilot year, or scale dual enrollment partnerships up to include any number of partnerships that appear viable and supportable.

C.(1) By no later than the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year or as soon as funding is made available, upon meeting the requirements of this Subpart, any student sixteen years of age or older, but less than twenty-one years old, who is enrolled in a public secondary school shall have the opportunity to be simultaneously enrolled in his public secondary school and in a community or technical college undertaking a program of technical training in addition to any other option available to such student to gain such training.

(2) To participate in such dual enrollment as provided in this Subpart, a student shall:

(a) Have an up-to-date career option program plan as provided in Subpart A-1 of this Part.

(b) Be enrolled in public secondary school and be neither suspended nor expelled.

(c) If under the age of eighteen years, have the written permission of his parent or legal guardian to participate in such a dual enrollment program.

D. In addition to all other requirements of this Subsection, the local board governing any public secondary school shall establish the means to share postsecondary students with community or technical colleges in order to provide access for such students to the facilities, resources, and faculty of any technical training program existing at any such school or to provide any academic classwork to such students in a manner that does not jeopardize the safe and appropriate operation of a secondary school.

Acts 2006, No. 668, §1, eff. June 29, 2006.

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