Updated: March 25, 1999

This legislation is intended to allow eleventh and twelfth grade students attending a secondary school to have the option of taking postsecondary classes at a nearby college campus.

Modeled after a program already in effect in Minnesota, HB 113 gives high school students the opportunity to take more advanced classes within the university system and count them toward their requirements for graduation from high school. The bill further recognizes that secondary students are part of the public education foundation formula and provides for tuition assistance whenever the secondary student chooses to count college courses toward his or her high school graduation requirements.

HB 113 will give our public school students more options in planning their curriculum. Instead of being limited to those classes offered by the local high school, this bill, if enacted, would give our public school students a wider variety of options by including courses available at the local college campus.

We are all looking for ways to improve our educational system. Expanding the opportunities for our young people is one way we can accomplish that. HB 113 takes a step in that direction.