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Panel backs bill to align home-study students' ACT requirement with public and private students for TOPS
Summary
The committee reported HB378 favorably. The bill removes an extra ACT-score requirement for certain home-study students seeking the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS).
The Senate Committee on Education reported HB378 favorably to the full legislature. Representative Wilder, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure would eliminate a higher ACT threshold currently applied to some home-study students seeking TOPS, the state's merit-based college aid program.
"The ACT is a national assessment, and a student is a student. So a 20 is a 20," Representative Wilder said, urging the committee to "be results oriented." Wilder said the bill is supported by the Department of Education (Dr. Brumley) and the governor's office (Dr. Kingham), and that it previously passed the House 89-6.
Committee members noted they had received emails and a petition in opposition; Wilder said he would follow up with the Louisiana Homeschool Network and homeschool support groups. Senator Jackson Andrews moved to report the bill favorably; there were no objections in committee and HB378 was reported favorably.
The transcript does not record a roll-call vote tally in committee, nor did it specify the precise ACT score adjustments beyond removing the 2-point differential for certain home-study students.
