Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-296-R1

Redraft EDU 296

Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment

Ms. Creem and Ms. Chang-Diaz and Messrs. Welch, Donnelly, Tolman and Michael O. Moore moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7061-9600, <w:p><w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">by striking out the words "maintain existing guidelines for this program" and by inserting in place thereof the following words:- “develop guidelines to ensure that the grant program promotes civic engagement and mentoring of faculty in state institutions of higher education and supports college success, work success, participation in student life of the college community and provision of a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment”;

and in said section 2, in said item 7061-9600, by striking out the words “maintain strategies and procedures to help sustain and replicate said inclusive concurrent enrollment programs” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “develop strategies and procedures to help sustain and replicate the existing inclusive concurrent enrollment programs initiated through this pilot program, including, but not limited to: provision of funds to retain employment specialists and assist students in meeting competitive employment and other transition-related goals and adoption of procedures and funding mechanisms to ensure that new partnerships of institutions of higher education and school districts providing inclusive concurrent enrollment programs fully utilize the models and expertise developed in existing partnerships; provided further, that the department shall develop a mechanism to encourage existing and new partnerships to expand capacity to respond to individual parents who request an opportunity for their children to participate in the inclusive concurrent enrollment initiative; provided further, that tuition for courses shall be waived by the institutes of higher education for students enrolled through this grant program”