SB118 Alabama 2011 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Arthur Orr SenatorRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2011
- Title
- Early Graduation Scholarship Program and Fund, established to provide grants to students who graduate from high school early, Foundation Program to provide funds, duties to Education Department and Commission on Higher Education
- Description
Existing law does not provide incentives for students to graduate early from high school to attend an institution of higher education.
This bill would create the early graduation scholarship program to provide a scholarship to any qualifying student who graduates at the 11th grade level and attends a two-year or four-year institution of higher education in the state.
This bill would provide for the duties of the State Department of Education and the Alabama Commission on Higher Education in administering the program.
This bill would also provide for funding of the program through Foundation Program funds allocated for the student to his or her high school.
- Subjects
- Education
Bill Actions
Re-referred to the Committee on Finance and Taxation Education
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature