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Georgia’s auditors examined the state’s dual enrollment program in 2018 and found a program spending heavily with no defined goals, no single agency responsible for its data, and no access to the course records needed to verify what it was paying for. This 2020 follow-up checks what happened next. House Bill 444 wrote goals into statute, made the Georgia Student Finance Commission responsible for collecting and evaluating the data, and controlled costs by limiting who qualifies and how many hours the state will fund.
- Who published it
- Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, 2020
- Authors
- Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, Performance Audit Division
- What it is
- Government audit
- Where the data comes from
- Georgia
What it found
- Georgia appropriated $100.8 million in state general funds in fiscal year 2020 to cover tuition for roughly 60,000 dual enrolled students.
- The 2018 examination found no defined goals for the program, no single owner for its data, and no access to course records to verify payments.
- House Bill 444, passed in 2020, set goals in statute and made the Georgia Student Finance Commission responsible for the data and the evaluation.
- The bill caps state-funded dual credit at 30 semester hours for most students, and limits funded courses to core academic subjects and career, technical and agricultural education.
What it does not show
- A follow-up review checks whether recommendations were acted on. It does not measure whether the program helps students.
- It says nothing about how many of these credits transferred or counted toward a degree.
How the study was done
A June 2020 follow-up review by Georgia’s Performance Audit Division of its January 2018 special examination of the Dual Enrollment Program.
Why this matters to a family
Thirty semester hours is the ceiling on what Georgia pays for, so a Georgia plan that runs past it is a plan with a tuition bill inside it.
Sources
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