TOPS Core Curriculum Equivalent Courses
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TOPS Core Curriculum Equivalent Courses |
LOUISIANA
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
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TOPS BULLETIN NUMBER: |
T99-26 |
DATE ISSUED: |
September 17, 1999 |
EFFECTIVE DATE: |
As Indicated |
| DISTRIBUTION: | Louisiana High Schools, Presidents and Superintendents of Parish School Boards, Louisiana Department of Education and Louisiana Officials |
| TOPIC: | TOPS Core Curriculum Equivalent Courses |
To assure that your Scholarship and
Grant Policy and Procedure Manual remains current, please record this document
on your TOPS Bulletin index and retain it with your manual.
Rules of the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission, (specifically,
Louisiana Administrative Code Title 28, Part IV) have been revised to provide
that certain courses may satisfy core curriculum course requirements of
703.A.5.a.i. Quoted below are sections 703.A.5.a.i. and the new section ii:
§Chapter 7. Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) Opportunity;
Performance and Honors Awards
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§703. Establishing
Eligibility
A.-A.4.g.
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5.
a. graduate from a BESE-approved, provisionally-approved, or
probationally-approved public or nonpublic Louisiana
high school or eligible non-Louisiana high school as defined in §1703.A.3; and
i. at the time of high school
graduation, an applicant must have successfully completed 16.5 units of high
school course work constituting a core curriculum as follows:
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Units |
Course |
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1 |
English I |
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1 |
English II |
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1 |
English III |
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1 |
English IV |
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1 |
Algebra I (one unit) or Applied Algebra 1A and 1B (two units) |
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1 |
Algebra II |
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1 |
Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus or Comparable Advanced Math |
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1 |
Biology I |
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1 |
Chemistry I |
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1 |
Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Science, Biology II, Chemistry II or Physics, Physics II or Physics for Technology |
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1 |
American History |
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1 |
World History, World Culture, Western Civilization or World Geography |
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1 |
Civics and Free Enterprise (one unit combined) or Civics (one unit, nonpublic) |
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1 |
Fine Arts Survey; (or substitute two units Performance courses in Music, Dance and/or Theater; or two units of Studio Art or Visual Art; or one elective from among the other subjects listed in this core curriculum) |
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2 |
In the Same Foreign Language (one unit or credit for three or more hours of college foreign language for students graduating from high school during the 1996-97 and 1997-98 school years). |
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½ |
Computer Science, Computer Literacy or Business Computer Applications (or substitute at least one-half unit of an elective course related to computers that is approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; (or substitute at least one-half unit of an elective from among the other subjects listed in this core curriculum) |
ii. for purposes of satisfying the requirements of §703.A.5.a.i., above, the following courses shall be considered equivalent to the identified core courses and may be substituted to satisfy corresponding core courses:
Core Curriculum
Course
Equivalent (Substitute)
Course
Physical
Science
General Science
Algebra I, Algebra II and
Geometry
Integrated Mathematics I, II and III
Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, or
Comparable
Pre-Calculus, Algebra III, Probability and Statistics,
Advanced
Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics
Fine Arts Survey Speech Debate (2 units)
Western Civilization European History
or
A.5.b.-G.2. ...
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Chapter 8. TOPS-TECH Award
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§803. Establishing Eligibility
A.- 6.c. ...
d. for purposes of satisfying the core curriculum requirements for a TOPS-Tech award, a student may substitute for a core curriculum course those courses listed as equivalent courses in §703.A.5.a.ii.
A.7.-11. ...