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Committee approves bill letting homeschool students take SAT/ACT at resident schools
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 63, sponsored by Sen. Dixon, to allow homeschool students to register to take PSAT/SAT/ACT (and pre-ACT) at their resident public schools and, where enrolled students are not charged, to avoid per-test fees.
Sen. Randy Dixon told the Senate Education Committee he filed Senate Bill 63 (LC 610062) to give homeschool students access to college-entrance testing at their resident public schools. "It's simply a bill, for homeschoolers, and it simply, would allow them to take, their PSAT, their SAT, their ACT or the pre ACT, test at their resident school," Dixon said.
The bill would require homeschool families to register their children with the school system — "They would have to register like every other student would so the the school system would have the information of the…
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