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Senate Education panel hears proposal to limit Promise Scholarship funds for co‑requisite remediation hours
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The Senate Education Committee heard proponent testimony on SB 340, which would amend the Kansas Promise Scholarship Act to bar state scholarship dollars from paying the additional remedial hours in co‑requisite course models, while still funding the credit‑bearing course; the reviser will draft clarifying language.
The Senate Education Committee on Friday heard proponents for Senate Bill 340, a measure to amend the Kansas Promise Scholarship Act to prohibit Promise scholarship awards from funding co‑requisite remediation hours.
Tamara Lawrence, the committee reviser, told members the bill would change the statute’s treatment of award amounts and limitations and would take effect July 1 upon publication in the statute book. Heather Morgan, executive director of the Kansas…
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