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About Course Choice

Supplemental Course Academy provides school districts and other public schools an MFP allocation related to the cost of high school credit courses. It is individualized to the needs of secondary students and is provided outside the traditional secondary school. Course Choice funded through the Supplemental Course Allocation (SCA) provides courses not currently available to their students, including:

Career and technical preparation, supporting the Jump Start program
Academic work required to achieve TOPS
Advanced coursework not available at the school due to limited resources
Dual Enrollment
Intensive remediation for students struggling to stay on pace for graduation

Registration Information

All registration for coursework in 2019-2020 will go through the school. If a parent or student seeks to enroll in a course, please contact your school directly to speak with the person handling Course Choice Registration.

K-12 Course Provider Registration - Registration for coursework will take place at the school level and is only open to school representatives. A representative from the school should follow the directions on the Registration Instructions document to register with various course providers. School representatives will be asked to input student information in the Course Choice Reporting portal by a TBD deadline. The deadline will be published in the News section and the LDOE newsletter.

Dual Enrollment Registration - Students seeking coursework for dual enrollment credit should register directly with the Louisiana post-secondary institution as they have in the past. Then school representatives will input student information in the Course Choice Reporting portal by a TBD deadline. The deadline will be published in the News section and the LDOE Newsletter.

Current News

Dates to Remember

July 1, 2019	Schools can begin uploading enrollments; additions or withdrawals can be made by the schools during this time
September 13, 2019	System will close to new fall and full year enrollments at 5 pm
September 16 – 20, 2019	LDOE staff will verify enrollment numbers so billing can take place in October
September 23, 2019	Last day to report "no shows" for fall and full year
October 7, 2019	Course providers should bill school systems for 50% of tuition for fall and full year enrollments
November 25, 2019	System re-opens for spring enrollments
December 13, 2019	Course providers provide grades to schools and grade distribution to LDOE
January 6, 2020	Course providers bill school systems for remaining tuition for fall enrollments
January 10, 2020	System will close to new enrollments at 5 pm
January 13 – 24, 2020	LDOE staff will verify enrollments numbers so billing can take place in late January
January 27, 2020	Last day to report "no shows" for spring
January 31, 2020	Course providers should bill school systems for 50% of tuition for spring enrollments
March 2, 2020	All dual enrollment reporting must be finalized
May 15, 2020	Course providers provide grades to schools and grade distribution to LDOE
June 1, 2020	Course providers bill districts for the remaining tuition for full year and spring enrollments

Registration Process

Schools will register students directly with the Course Choice Provider by providing the Course Provider all of the needed information about the student in accordance with student privacy laws.

Schools must document all SCA enrollments in the Course Choice Reporting System by the end of registration deadlines in order to fund the courses using SCA allocations. Fall and Full Year registration must be documented by September 13, 2019. Enrollments can occur, at this time, for spring coursework however, there will be an additional enrollment period for spring coursework starting November 25, 2019.

No show:	a student who hasn’t completed any work; the enrollment was made in error.
Withdrawal:	a student who has completed work within the course, but subsequently leaves the course at the request of the school.

Dual Enrollment

Students seeking dual enrollment coursework should register directly with the Louisiana post-secondary institution. Schools must document all SCA dual enrollments in the Course Choice Reporting System by the end of registration deadlines in order to fund the courses using SCA allocations. Fall and Full Year registration must be documented by October 4, 2019. Enrollments can occur, at this time, for spring coursework however, there will be an additional enrollment period for spring coursework starting November 25, 2019.

Course Choice Support

For assistance with Course Choice, please send an e-mail to SCA@la.gov