<div dir="ltr"><h2 style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:normal">Guymon High, in
accordance with ACE legislation and SB 290 session 2009, shall govern the
concurrent enrollment, dual credit, and EOI testing of any Guymon High School
student who wishes to participate in college classes during his or her junior
and/or senior year....</span></h2><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:normal">This is the beginning of the policy Guymon has on dual credit that had to be implemented by state law. Here is another section taken from the policy and law:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The
following higher education courses commonly taken through</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> concurrent enrollment
have</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">been reviewed by the Oklahoma State </span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> Department of Education (OSDE) and approved for</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> academic credit:</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> College Algebra = 1 unit Algebra II</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> General Biology = 1 unit Biology II</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> General Botany = 1 unit Botany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Eng Comp I = 1/2 unit Eng IV</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Eng Comp II = 1/2 unit Eng IV</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Intro to Chemistry = 1 unit Chemistry</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Chemistry I = 1 unit Chemistry</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Am. Hist early = 1/2 unit US Hist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Am. Hist late = 1/2 unit US Hist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Intro to Geography = 1/2 unit World Geog</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Am. Fed. Govt. = 1/2 unit Am. Government</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Intro to Speech = 1/2 unit Speech </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Courses not listed and for
which academic credit is sought may be </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> submitted to OSDE for </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">review
of course curriculum alignment with the </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> Oklahoma Priority Academic Student
Skills.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">We actually allow classes worth 3 or fewer credits to be valued at 1/2 high school credit and those valued at 4 or greater to have a value of 1 credit at the high school. (This too is stated in the policy.) Our College Algebra usually is counted as part of the required 4th year of math at Guymon High since most students have taken Algebra II by the time they choose concurrent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">The reason this law came into effect was because many schools were doing their own thing with no standard: some schools refused to count concurrent for any high school credit, some schools "over" counted things addressed in the law by using AP exam credit in the junior year English as both English 3 credit for taking the course and English 4 credit for passing the test, and still others were very random in handling concurrent and AP courses. When students transferred from one Oklahoma school to another, they were losing credits they thought they had and were being blocked from graduation in other schools, therefor requiring summer school or attendance the next year... To clean and clear it up, </font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">SB 290 session 2009, was written.</span></p>
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</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:07 AM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:counselors@lists.onenet.net" target="_blank">counselors@lists.onenet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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