AR HB2125

High schools, students, and institutions of higher education each pay one-third of remedial course tuition costs, with students prohibited from using Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarships to pay their portion.

Traditional students who graduate from Arkansas public high schools and require remedial courses must complete all remedial coursework by July 31 before their first scholarship-funded semester or forfeit their scholarship award.

Nontraditional scholarship recipients must complete all required remedial courses within the first thirty semester hours attempted after receiving a scholarship.

Forfeited scholarship awards from traditional students are redirected to the nontraditional student scholarship fund, which maintains a base of twelve million dollars ($12,000,000) plus any additional amounts provided by law.

Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board must develop uniform exit standards for remedial courses comparable to ACT or SAT requirements and report progress on innovative remedial instruction methods to education committees.