Currents

Dual Enrollment: Where Does Your State Stand?

Volume 5 / Issue 2 / Winter 2005

Dual enrollment, whereby high school students enroll in college courses and earn high school and college credit simultaneously, is increasingly the subject of state legislation. Do your state’s policies promote or impede such programs? State Dual Enrollment Policies: Addressing Access and Quality, a report from the Community College Research Center, analyzes dual enrollment legislation in all 50 states. Of the 38 states with dual enrollment policies, only 18 mandate that such opportunities be provided to students. Check out the full report online at www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/cclo/cbtrans/statedualenrollment04.doc to find out about your state’s policy on dual enrollment: whether it is mandated, what the age requirements are, and who is responsible for the tuition—the college, the high school, or the student.

Editor's Note: An update to the original report appears at www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/cclo/cbtrans/statedualenrollment.pdf.