Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CELESTE M. RILEY
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblywoman MILA M. JASEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Assemblyman JOSEPH CRYAN
District 20 (Union)
Assemblyman ANGEL FUENTES
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Garcia
SYNOPSIS
Requires all school districts and public institutions of higher education to offer dual enrollment programs to provide college-level instruction to high school students and requires these students be charged a reduced tuition rate.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning dual enrollment programs and supplementing chapter 61C of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Each public institution of higher education and each school district with a high school shall offer a dual enrollment program pursuant to which instruction is provided to high school students through courses offered by a public institution of higher education on its campus or on the campus of a public high school for college credit.
2. A public institution of higher education shall not charge tuition to a high school student participating in a dual enrollment program who is eligible for a free or reduced price lunch and shall charge any other high school student participating in a dual enrollment program no more than 75 percent less than the in-State per credit rate.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a public institution of higher education from providing free tuition to a high school student participating in a dual enrollment program other than a student entitled to free tuition pursuant to this section.
3. The State Board of Education and the Secretary of Higher Education each shall adopt, pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires all public institutions of higher education and all school districts with a high school to offer dual enrollment programs. The bill also requires public institutions of higher education to charge high school students participating in a dual enrollment program no more than 75 percent less than the in-State per credit tuition rate, except that students eligible for a free or reduced price lunch would not be charged any tuition.