Wisconsin AG rules that UW System can’t charge for Course Options program

Or at least, that UW schools can’t charge the high schoolers themselves for taking courses offered in their schools for college credit, known as concurrent enrollment classes. In an opinion released Thursday, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen also said the state’s Department of Public Instruction — rather than UW System — should determine concurrent enrollment program costs for UW System and school districts. “Impact on UWS (the payments it will receive) and the resident school district (the payments it will make) will be decided by DPI,” Van Hollen wrote. “Not only does the student no longer pay any tuition for a concurrent enrollment course, his application to attend a concurrent enrollment court cannot be denied on the ground that it might impose ‘an undue financial burden’ on his resident school district.” It’s complicated. Read more.