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Senate Education committee advances HB 175 to expand advanced-opportunity access for homeschoolers
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 175, as amended, to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation after a short presentation.
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 175, as amended, to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation after a brief presentation and limited questioning.
Senator Janie Ward Engle King, District 18 senator, who presented the measure, said the bill "is the advanced opportunity and how we, deal with, students, both homeschoolers, public school students, and private school students, how they access Opportunity Scholarship money." She told the committee the bill does three primary things: it gives homeschoolers a pathway to access the program directly through community colleges; it clarifies that students may take college entrance…
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