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Senate committee forwards House Bill 175 to floor to expand Advanced Opportunity access for homeschoolers
Summary
A Senate committee voted to send House Bill 175, as amended, to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation after a brief hearing. The bill lets homeschool students access the state's Advanced Opportunity program directly through community colleges, clarifies testing rules and adds technical alignment between public and private school program
A Senate committee voted to send House Bill 175, as amended, to the Senate floor with a "due pass" recommendation after a brief hearing in which sponsors said the bill would make it easier for homeschooled students to use the state's Advanced Opportunity program and would allow students to retake college entrance exams.
Senator Janie Ward Engle King, District 18, who presented the bill, said the measure creates a direct pathway for homeschool students to access Opportunity Scholarship funds through community colleges instead of working through a local public school. "This 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," Ward Engle King said.
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