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2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 136
BY REPRESENTATIVE WESLEY BISHOP
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation
with the Board of Regents, to study the feasibility and costs of using state funds to
pay for students in approved home study programs to participate in dual enrollment
programs established by the Board of Regents and to submit a written report of its
findings and conclusions, including any recommendations for legislation relative to
the issue, to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on
Education not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2016 Regular
Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, R.S. 17:236.1 grants the State Board of Elementary and Secondary
Education the authority to approve home study programs; and
WHEREAS, in R.S. 17:3137(A), the legislature finds that the dual enrollment
program established by the Board of Regents enhances curricular options available to
eligible high school students by providing an opportunity to enroll in postsecondary
coursework creditable toward a career certificate or an associate or baccalaureate degree; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 17:3137(C) authorizes students participating in home study
programs to participate in the Board of Regents' dual enrollment program but provides that
state funds shall not be used to pay the tuition of such a student who is dually enrolled in a
participating postsecondary education institution; and
WHEREAS, increasing access for students in approved home study programs to
participate in this dual enrollment program by removing possible funding obstacles would
likely assist such students in their academic pursuits; and
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WHEREAS, it is appropriate that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary
Education, in consultation with the Board of Regents, conduct a thorough examination of
the feasibility and costs of using state funds to pay for students in approved home study
programs to participate in dual enrollment programs established by the Board of Regents.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation
with the Board of Regents, to study the feasibility and costs of using state funds to pay for
students in approved home study programs to participate in dual enrollment programs
established by the Board of Regents and to submit a written report of its findings and
conclusions, including any recommendations for legislation relative to the issue, to the
House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education not later than sixty
days prior to the beginning of the 2016 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the state
superintendent of education, the chairman of the Board of Regents, and the commissioner
of higher education.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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