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House Higher Education Committee advances 10-year extension for dual-enrollment pilot
Summary
The House Higher Education Committee voted to forward a substitute to House Bill 217 to Rules with a due-pass recommendation after hearing that the Technical College System of Georgia will continue funding and the pilot will be extended from five to ten years.
Chairman Dickey, chair of the House Higher Education Committee, opened the committee’s Friday meeting and introduced a substitute to House Bill 217, a dual-enrollment pilot that gives students who have left high school a route to a diploma and technical credentials through the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG).
Rep. Sue Hong, the governor’s floor leader, told the committee the substitute extends the existing pilot from five years to 10 years so lawmakers can gather more data before deciding whether to make the program permanent. “But instead, we are going to extend the pilot program now to 10 years, from the 5 years before,” Rep. Hong said. She also said the bill changes the annual review date to Nov. 15 and adjusts who receives the program results.
The committee heard that TCSG…
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