The Louisiana Department of Education is holding online seminars at 10 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday about a newly created state program that allots money to students who want to take career-oriented classes, college level classes or online classes in subjects not offered at their home schools. Operating like a voucher system for individual classes, the program, called Course Choice, will start in 2013-14, primarily serving students in public schools with letter grades of C or lower but also adding options for students in A or B schools.

Course Choice aims to help some students catch up with their coursework when they've fallen behind and help others earn early college credits or graduate early from high school. The online meetings are meant to spread information to potential course providers, businesses, entrepreneurs, school administrators, counselors, teachers and parents.

Anyone interested in joining the seminar today can visit this Internet site, or call 888.621.7121 and enter the event number 701635. For Thursday's session, visit this site or call the same number and enter the event number 701635.

Education Department officials are planning to begin a campaign seeking feedback on the program from educators in local school districts in July. They also plan to begin seeking course providers in July.

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