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Success in Education Committee
By Jason | February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3rd was an enjoyable day in the House Education Committee. We had a large amount of supporters attend the bill hearing for House Bill 1190 which revises the Opportunity Scholarship requirements to include Career and Technical Education in the elective category along with world languages. This bill also includes a change that allows a postsecondary student to maintain their scholarship if they complete 30 credits a year, instead of 15 credits for each semester. The reason for this change is that a student may enroll in 16 credits for a semester in college or technical school, but then decides to drop a class of two or three credits and therefore be ineligible for the scholarship anymore.
The support of proponents in the committee was tremendous, and I know many folks throughout the State contacted the House Education committee members and their Legislators. Now we need to continue the momentum to ensure that HB 1190 is given favorable consideration on the House Floor next week!
Below are a few links to information on HB 1190:
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/CommitteeMinutes.aspx?Committee=17&File=minHED02030745.htm
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/index.aspx
You can check out the South Dakota Public Broadcasting STATEHOUSE segment that highlights the important facts of HB 1190 via this link: http://www.sdpb.org/Statehouse/shows.aspx?MediaID=57752&Parmtype=TV&ParmAccessLevel=sdpb-all
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