The following guidelines have been established to ensure that these programs operate as effectively as possible and in accordance with Board policy and the School Code.

Each year, prior to March 1st, the high school principal shall provide information regarding the optional postsecondary (dual) enrollment program to the students currently enrolled in grades 8 through 11 and to their parents. This information should be mailed to the student's current address. A record should be kept of the mailing list and the date of the mailing in order to confirm compliance with State rules.

The postsecondary institutions to which this dual enrollment options program applies are any state university, community college, independent nonprofit degree-granting college or university located in Michigan or Federal tribally controlled colleges and universities certified to operate in Michigan and that chooses to comply with the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act.

"Eligible student" means a student enrolled in at least one (1) high school class in the District for the year in which participation is sought or state approved nonpublic school in Michigan. Students must be an enrolled student in the District. Students become eligible by completing all of the required tests and receiving a score(s) that qualifies for entry into the postsecondary (dual) enrollment program.

Foreign-exchange students are not eligible.

An eligible student must have at least one (1) parent or legal guardian who is a resident of Michigan. Except as provided by law, an eligible student shall not have been enrolled in high school for more than four (4) school years, including the school year in which the student seeks to enroll in a postsecondary (dual) enrollment course.

A student must have completed the requirements for his/her eligibility and is limited to enrollment in a subject area in which s/he has met these requirements.

"Eligible course" means a course, including career and technical preparation courses, offered by an eligible postsecondary institution that is offered for postsecondary credit or is part of a noncredit occupational training program leading to an industry-recognized credential; that is not offered by the School District (in the case of career and technical preparation programs shall include intermediate school district or area vocational-technical education program) or state-approved nonpublic school in which the eligible student is enrolled, or that is offered by the School District (in the case of career and technical preparation programs shall include intermediate school district or area vocational-technical education program) or state-approved nonpublic school but is determined by its governing board to not be available to the eligible student because of a scheduling conflict beyond the eligible student's control; that is an academic course not ordinarily taken as an activity course; that is a course that the postsecondary institution normally applies toward satisfaction of degree requirements; that is not a hobby craft or recreational course; and that is in a subject area other than physical education, theology, divinity, or religious education.

Parents may request that their child be allowed to take any test the District uses to grant program entry at the time the test or retest is offered.

In addition, the student must meet the eligibility requirements of the postsecondary institution of choice and be accepted by that institution or other nonprofit educational institutions or Federal tribally controlled colleges and universities certified to operate in Michigan.

For each individual eligible student, unless there is a written agreement between the eligible student’s school district and the career and technical preparation program to waive these limits, a course described in this subdivision is not an eligible course if the eligible student’s enrollment in, and the payment of eligible charges for the course would exceed the following limits: