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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Oklahoma
Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>After much
discussion during our Fall Regional Workshops and more discussion here among
Regent’s staff, I want to clarify the issues relative to transcripting
concurrent courses for your students.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><a
href="http://www.sde.state.ok.us/Schools/Counseling/Concurrent.html">http://www.sde.state.ok.us/Schools/Counseling/Concurrent.html</a>
includes the state law, State Regents policy and State Board of Education
regulations relative to concurrent enrollment. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>The issue on
which the law, policy and regulations are silent, and many of you have asked
about, relates to transcripting and recording the grade for the concurrent
courses as well as figuring gpa (grade point average). As we have
discussed when state law or state rule is silent, the issue is for local school
policymakers to decide.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>As you know the
law now requires:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list 0in'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:
Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When a student earns college credit
through concurrent enrollment, school districts <u>shall provide academic
credit</u> for any concurrently enrolled higher education courses that are
correlated with the academic credit awarded by the institution of higher
education. Academic credit shall only be <u>transcripted</u> as elective
credit if there is no correlation between the concurrent enrollment higher
education course and a course provided by the school district (70 O.S. §
628.13). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>This statute is clear
that “credit” must be given for concurrent enrollment
courses. Whether it is “academic credit” or “elective
credit” is left to local policymakers. All issues relative to
grading are also local policy issues. As we discussed in our workshops it
is very important for school districts to have official policies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Because of impact
on scholarships including Oklahoma’s Promise, many of you are rightly
concerned about how grading should be handled:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:navy'>Should the course be averaged into the gpa?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:navy'>Should a </span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>grade <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>be placed on the transcript?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>These remain
local decisions but for Oklahoma’s Promise purposes, should your district
choose not</span></font><font size=2 color="#003300" face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#003300'> to </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>place a grade on the transcript, you
must send a copy of the student’s higher education transcript with the
high school transcript. This will allow the OK Promise staff to use the
concurrent enrollment course grade rather than a “D” in figuring
the required gpa. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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