HI HCR66

Hawaii Virtual Learning Network is urged to offer more advanced placement classes or alternatively give enrollment priority to students from small or rural high schools for existing advanced placement courses.

Advanced placement classes allow high school students to earn college credit and advance placement while developing college-level skills, but budget constraints prevent all Hawaii high schools from offering them.

Students at smaller rural high schools lack access to advanced placement courses and currently must compete with all other state high school students for the limited 14 advanced placement classes offered through the virtual network despite being at an educational disadvantage.

In the 2009 academic year, all 14 advanced placement classes offered by Hawaii Virtual Learning Network were filled to capacity, preventing many eligible students from enrolling.

Certified copies of the resolution are to be transmitted to the Hawaii Virtual Learning Network, Governor, Superintendent of Education, University of Hawaii President, and Myron B. Thompson Academy Board Chairperson.