Corsicana ISD staff propose limiting online-only dual credit courses from core GPA and class-rank calculations

Corsicana — District administrators told the Board of Trustees Tuesday they will add a written clause to the class-ranking policy to exclude strictly online dual credit courses from the core GPA calculation unless the course is taught in person on the Corsicana High School campus by a qualified Navarro College instructor. The proposed change, presented by district staff, says: “If a dual credit course listed as eligible for class-rank consideration does not provide an in-person professor, and is delivered strictly in an online format, it will not be counted as a core area course for the purpose of calculating class rank.” Administrators said the intent is fairness: the district cited concerns about monitoring course rigor and integrity in fully online sections. The presenters named dual credit sociology and psychology as examples of courses that, when delivered strictly online, would be excluded from core-GPA consideration under the new clause. Staff clarified the proposal would apply to students entering high school in 2024 or later and would not be applied retroactively to students who already completed those courses. The district said the classification of a dual credit course as a core subject (for example, sociology counted as a social studies course) is based on a crosswalk the district shares with Navarro College. Board members asked how the change would be timed and which years of coursework it would affect. The presenter said the change would standardize future inclusion decisions so the district would not need to repeatedly amend policy language year to year. The transcript does not record a formal motion or vote on the policy change at the meeting; the item was presented and discussed but not adopted according to the public record.