Two Georgia legislative study committees have spent the summer working to find ways to ramp up Georgia’s dual enrollment program and make it financially sustainable. Georgia lawmakers took steps during the past two sessions to put a cap on the program which had 49,000 students enrolled last year and peaked at a cost of $105 million in 2020.
That was reduced to $76 million for the current year’s budget. The reduction came from limiting dual enrollment to 30 hours per student. This past session, legislators passed SB 86 which lets dual enrolled students tap the state’s HOPE scholarship program to pay for career-related courses and earn an associate degree.
The two committees will continue meeting this fall to develop recommendations for the General Assembly to consider during the 2024 legislative session starting in January.
