Section 340.080 - Limitation on credit hours awarded to students; participation by at-risk students; rules(1) For a high school with an enrollment of 1,000 students, each school year no more than 330 quarter credit hours may be awarded to eligible students at the high school under the Expanded Options Program.(2) The State Board of Education by rule shall establish separate credit hour caps for high schools that have enrollment greater than 1,000 students and those that have less than 1,000 students. The caps shall be proportional to the credit hour caps established under subsection (1) of this section.(3) A school district may choose to exceed the credit hour caps established in subsections (1) and (2) of this section.(4)(a) If a school district has more eligible students who wish to participate in the Expanded Options Program than are allowed under the credit hour cap established under this section, the school district board shall establish a process for selecting eligible students to participate in the program. The process must give priority for program participation to at-risk students.(b) If a school district has not exceeded the credit hour caps established by this section, the school district: (A) Must ensure that all eligible students who are at-risk students are allowed to participate in the program; and(B) May allow eligible students who are not at-risk students to participate in the program, as provided by the provisions of ORS 340.005 to 340.090.(5) The provisions of ORS 340.005 to 340.090 do not apply to any post-secondary courses in which a student is enrolled in addition to being enrolled full-time in the student's resident school district. For purposes of this subsection, a student is considered enrolled full-time if the student attends classes for credit in the secondary school for all available hours of instruction.Amended by 2023 Ch. 495, § 9, eff. 7/31/2023. 2005 c. 674, § 17; 2011 c. 456, § 2