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MAYNARD HOLBROOK JACKSON HIGH SCHOOL
Mission:
To provide an equitable and globally enriching education that empowers inquiring, knowledgeable, and compassionate learners to achieve their academic and professional goals for themselves and for the betterment of others.
Vision:
To be a high-achieving school that inspires and prepares ALL students to interact, collaborate, thrive, and enact positive change in a global community.
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Dual Enrollment Updates
HB444 Dual Enrollment Updates
Dual enrollment is an important educational option for students. Students taking part in Georgia’s Dual Enrollment Program take classes at colleges or universities — public or private — at no cost, and earn both high-school credit and college credit for those classes.
HB 444, which passed the Georgia House of Representatives in early March 2020 and is now in the Georgia Senate’s Higher Education Committee, would make two significant changes to dual enrollment:
1. Dual enrollment at four-year colleges, whether part of the University System of Georgia or private institutions, would be open only to high-school juniors and seniors. This is a change from existing policy, under which freshmen and sophomores also are eligible. (Under the bill, sophomores could still take classes at the state’s technical colleges.)
2. The Dual Enrollment Program would pay for a maximum of 30 semester hours (45 quarter hours) of college-level classes per high-school student. Once this cap of “covered” hours is reached, students could take additional dual enrollment classes by either A) paying out of pocket, or B) charging the additional dual enrollment hours against their future HOPE Grant or HOPE Scholarship.
To explain this second point, let’s say a high-school student has participated in dual enrollment since her junior year. By the time she reaches the spring semester of her senior year, she has taken 30 semester hours of classes at Georgia State University, all of which have been paid for by the Georgia Dual Enrollment Program. Now, she wants to take an additional 12 semester hours of classes at GSU. Under HB 444, she could either pay for those classes herself, or she could have them paid for by the Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC), in which case the 12 semester hours would be deducted from the maximum credit hours allowed to her under the HOPE program.
The caps on the HOPE Scholarship are a maximum of 127 semester hours or 190 quarter hours. This bill would not change those caps.
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