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From the ECS State Policy Database
High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges


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This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format.

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State Status/Date Level Summary
CASigned into law 07/2012P-12School Attendance at Early and Middle College High Schools
S.B. 1316
From bill summary: States findings and declarations regarding the pupils for whom an early college high school is designed and the key eleme...

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MEIssued 07/2011P-12
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Establishes the Governor's Task Force on Expanding Early Post-Secondary Access for High School Students
Executive Order 19 FY 11/12
Establishes the Governor's Task Force on Expanding Early Post-Secondary Access for High School Students. Provides that the purpose of the ta...

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OHSigned into law 06/2011P-12Early College Start-Up Community School
H.B. 153 - Early College Start-Up Community School
Permits any early college high school operated by a big eight school district (as defined in statute http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.02) in p...

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CASigned into law 06/2011P-12
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Middle College High School Students
A.B. 230
From bill summary: Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to assign a low enrollment priority to middle c...

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NCVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011P-12
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Career and College Promise
H.B. 200 - Career and College Promise
Directs the state board of education and North Carolina Community College System to establish the Career and College Promise program to offe...

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NCVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011P-12Cooperative Innovative High School Programs
H.B. 200 - Cooperative Innovative High School Programs
Establishes new criteria for a school to be defined a cooperative innovative high school, and requires a cooperative innovative high school ...

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MISigned into law 06/2011P-12Eliminates Certains Programs/Changes Pupil Count Day/District Transparency
H.B. 4325 - K-12 Provisions
From Legislative Staff Summary: Eliminates middle college grants and funding that provides districts additional funds for educating students...

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MSSigned into law 04/2011Postsec.Implementation and Operations of Early College High Schools
H.B. 1163
Directs the state superintendent of public education, the commissioner of higher education and the executive director of the state board for...

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GAAdopted 07/2010P-12Alternative/Non-Traditional Education Programs
160-4-8-.12
Rule 160-4-8-.12, "Alternative Education Programs" has been repealed and a new rule adopted. Defines "alternative/non-traditional education ...

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NCSigned into law 07/2010P-12Flexibility to Cooperative Innovative High Schools
S.B. 1201
Provides that cooperative innovative high schools have the same exemptions from statutes and rules as charter schools, other than those pert...

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TXAdopted 11/2009P-12Early College and Middle College High Schools
19 TAC 1.4.G.4.151, .153, .155, .161
Clarifies the distinctions between early college high schools and middle colleges. Clarifies student eligibility. Clarifies that for early c...

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OHSigned into law 07/2009P-12Early College High Schools
H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.90
Provides that any early college high school operated by a big eight school district in partnership with a private university may operate as ...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12
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K-12/Postsecondary Sharing of Facility Costs
H.B. 3646 - Section 74
Authorizes a school district and an institution of higher education located wholly or partially in the county in which the district is locat...

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TXVetoed 06/2009Postsec.Funding for Certain Excess Undergraduate Credit Hours
S.B. 1343
From Bill Analysis (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/analysis/pdf/SB01343F.pdf):
Students in a four-year institution are required t...

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COSigned into law 05/2009P-12
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Community College
Dual/Concurrent Enrollment Program
H.B. 1319
Repeals the high school fast track program, the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act, and the Fast College Fast Jobs Act. Allows school dist...

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TNSigned into law 06/2007Postsec.
Community College
Cooperative Innovative Programs
H.B. 99
Authorizes public postsecondary institutions and local education agencies to jointly establish cooperative innovative programs in high schoo...

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COSigned into law 04/2007P-12
Community College
Fast College Fast Jobs Pilot Program
S.B. 148
Concerns simultaneous enrollment in secondary and postsecondary institutions.Creates the Fast College Fast Jobs pilot program to allow stude...

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LASigned into law 06/2006P-12
Community College
Early College/Dual Enrollment
S.B. 749
Requires and provides incentives for high schools and postsecondary institutions to maximize the shared use of facilities, technology, facul...

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LASigned into law 05/2006P-12
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Community College
High School/Community College Linkages
H.B. 1023
Requires the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges to work with Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to imp...

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TXAdopted 08/2005P-12
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Early College High Schools
19 TAC 1.4.G.4.151 thru .161
New rules concerning Early College High Schools (ECHS). Provides appropriate oversight by the Board of ECHS by requiring notification of int...

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NCSigned into law 07/2005P-12
Community College
Community College Learn & Earn Program
S.B. 566
Provides that tuition will be waived for all courses taken by high school students at community colleges colleges, including students in ear...

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TXSigned into law 06/2005P-12Early College Education Program
S.B. 1146
Expands the early college education program to allow participants in grades 9 and 10 to participate in an early college education program an...

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