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Parent testimony read on Senate floor praises Hope Scholarship amid warnings about changes
Summary
A parent letter read by the senator from Raleigh praised the Hope Scholarship for helping dyslexic children and cautioned against proposed changes; the senator urged protecting the program while also supporting improvements to public education.
During member remarks on Feb. 21, the senator from Raleigh read a letter from a parent who described the Hope Scholarship as critically helpful for a middle‑class family with four children, two of whom are dyslexic. The parent said the scholarship allowed access to therapies and curricular supports that the family’s public school had not provided, and that the program had "given us just that, hope."
The senator warned against committee changes to the program and described the prospect of making Hope Scholarship policy a subject of committee work across the rotunda. She urged colleagues to avoid eroding the program as currently structured and to weigh both school-choice options and continued support for public education and funding formulas. The senator asked that her remarks be printed in the journal appendix.
What it means: The floor statement highlights parental reliance on the Hope Scholarship for specialized educational services and frames the program as politically and practically significant as committees consider potential changes.
