Title 5 Update

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Title 5 Update

• Summary of Proposed Outcomes

April 2, 2009 CSSO/CIO Conference
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W no longer considered a repeat

• There is no relationship between a grade and W in
  course repetition determination.
• Example English 101 (not repeatable)
• D
• W
• W
• W
• W
• F substandard repeat of D
• if another W, not funded
• C substandard repeat of F
• if another W, not funded

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• Up to 4 funded Ws.
• Permits colleges/districts to allow additional
  non funded Ws, by petition.
• For reasons that are not necessarily extenuating
  (i.e. need a math
  course to graduate)
• Requires notification to faculty of withdrawal.
• District policy shall include provisions for
  intervention.
• MW is not included in limitations.

4

• Allows for 2 funded repeats of a substandard
  grade.
• Example English 101 (not repeatable)
• D funded original substandard
• F funded repeat
• C funded repeat

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• Allows for up to 2 grade alleviations on academic
  record.
• Example English 101 (not repeatable)
• D alleviate
• D alleviate
• F remains
• no more grade alleviation permitted
• additional repeat is permitted if funding is not
  claimed
• for reasons that are not necessarily extenuating
  
  (i.e. need a math course to graduate)
• two additional funded repeats for extenuating
  circumstances

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• Allows for up to 2 grade alleviations on academic
  record
• Physical Education course (repeatable)
• Example A Example B
• D alleviate W
• D alleviate W
• W remains W
• F remains D alleviate
• F alleviate
• W
• C
• no more grade alleviation, period.
• additional repeat is permitted, by petition, if
  funding is not claimed
• extenuating circumstance repetition is not
  permitted beyond the repeat limit for repeatable
  courses.

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• Conditions for Extenuating Circumstances are
  unchanged.
• By petition
• Extenuating defined as ...verified cases of
  accident, illness, or other circumstances beyond
  the control of the student.
• Two funded repeats for extenuating circumstances
• not permitted beyond the repeat limit for
  repeatable courses.
• Does not pertain to Ws

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• Conditions for Significant Lapse of Time are
  unchanged
• A student may repeat a repeatable or a non
  repeatable course , due to a significant lapse of
  time, when the previous grade earned was
  standard.
• One funded repeat permitted.

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• Removed language (in red)
• 55024(a) (8)
• A W shall not be assigned, or if assigned
  shall be removed, from a students academic
  record, if a determination is made pursuant to
  sections 59300 et seq. that the student withdrew
  from the course due to discriminatory treatment
  or due to retaliation for alleging discriminatory
  treatment or that the student withdrew because he
  or she reasonably believed that remaining in the
  course would subject him or her to discriminatory
  treatment or retaliation for alleging
  discriminatory treatment.