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REFERENCE TITLE: schools; concurrent enrollment |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017
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HB 2078 |
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Introduced by Representatives Carter: Boyer, Coleman, Townsend
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AN ACT
AMENDING section 15‑901.07, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to school finance.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 15-901.07, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
15-901.07. Concurrent enrollment; calculation of average daily membership
A. A school district or a charter school may include students enrolled in a concurrent enrollment course for the purposes of calculating average daily membership if the school district has received approval from the state board of education or the charter school has received approval from its sponsor to offer concurrent enrollment courses. A concurrent enrollment course shall be considered a subject for the purposes of calculating average daily membership if the concurrent enrollment course meets and all of the following apply:
1. Meets for at least forty hours per semester.
1. A student earns at least three semester hours of credit in the community college or university course per semester.
2. A student is awarded academic credit by the school district or charter school for the concurrent enrollment course pursuant to section 15‑701.01.
3. The concurrent enrollment course is at a higher level than the course taught at the school district or charter school in grades nine through twelve.
4. The A student who is enrolled in a concurrent enrollment course also attends at least one course offered at the school district or charter school per semester.
5. The concurrent enrollment course shall be is applicable to an established community college academic degree or certificate program that is transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. A concurrent enrollment course that is applicable to a community college occupational degree or certificate program may be transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents.
6. The school district or charter school pays the community college or university for the tuition cost of the concurrent enrollment course or reimburses the student for the tuition cost of the concurrent enrollment course.
B. For the purposes of this section, "concurrent enrollment course" means a community college or university level course at a community college or university, if the course is at a higher level than the course taught in the high school attended by the pupil or, if the course is not taught in the high school, the level of the course is equal to or higher than the level of a high school course.
B. A concurrent enrollment course at a community college or university of three semester hours of credit or more is considered a subject for the purposes of meeting the definition of full‑time student prescribed in section 15-901. A concurrent enrollment course at a community college or university of three semester hours of credit or more is not required to meet one hundred twenty-three hours a year, or the equivalent, to be considered a subject.
C. Instructional hours provided by a community college or university to a student in a concurrent enrollment course shall be included in the calculation of the average daily membership for that student pursuant to section 15-901.
D. Average daily membership shall be based on the combined instructional hours that the student is enrolled in at the school district or charter school and at the community college or university. Average daily membership shall be calculated by dividing the combined instructional hours by seven hundred twenty, except that if a student in grade nine through twelve participates in Arizona online instruction, average daily membership shall be calculated by dividing the combined instructional hours by nine hundred. Except as otherwise provided by law, for a full‑time high school student who attends concurrent enrollment courses pursuant to this section, the average daily membership may not exceed 1.0.