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Southwest ISD committee recommends easing eligibility for district scholarships
Summary
The Southwest ISD Scholarship Committee proposed removing a residency requirement, limiting attendance verification to senior year, and lowering minimum college-enrollment hours from 12 to 9 for scholarship recipients; the board heard the proposal but no formal vote appears in the provided transcript.
The Southwest Independent School District Scholarship Committee presented recommended changes to the district's scholarship bylaws, proposing to remove a residency requirement, base attendance calculations on the senior year only, and reduce the minimum postsecondary enrollment from 12 semester hours to nine.
The committee submitted the recommendations during the board meeting and asked the board to approve updates to the scholarship application and distribution guidelines for the 2024–25 school year. "So right…
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