House Bill 0907c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999              CS/HB 907

        By the Committee on Education/K-12 and Representatives
    Johnson and Greenstein





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; amending s.

  3         240.1163, F.S.; providing requirements

  4         regarding the weighting of certain course

  5         grades; authorizing certain courses to be

  6         designated as both dual enrollment and advanced

  7         placement courses; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (4) of section 240.1163, Florida

12  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

13         240.1163  Joint dual enrollment and advanced placement

14  instruction.--

15         (4)  In computing grade point averages, school

16  districts and community colleges must weigh a rigorous

17  college-level dual enrollment course the same as either an

18  advanced placement course or an honors course if the school

19  district determines that the dual enrollment course is

20  equivalent in academic rigor to an advanced placement course

21  or an honors course. A community college or school district

22  may designate a course as both dual enrollment and advanced

23  placement, and a student enrolled in such a course may earn

24  college credit as permitted under the requirements of either

25  program college-level dual enrollment courses the same as

26  honors courses and advanced placement courses when grade point

27  averages are calculated. Alternative grade calculation or

28  weighting systems that discriminate against dual enrollment

29  courses are prohibited.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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