{"id":2947,"date":"2004-05-22T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2004-05-22T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2004-05-22T04:59:45","slug":"tn-lottery-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"TN LOTTERY NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TN legislature <a href=\"http:\/\/miva.jacksonsun.com\/miva\/cgi-bin\/miva?NEWS\/news_story.mv+link=200405226161295\">passed<\/a> the bill &#8220;fixing&#8221; the HOPE scholarship program.  The Senate wanted to raise it to 23 for everyone like it is currently for homeschoolers.  The House wanted to lower the homeschooler&#8217;s requirement to 19 like everyone else.  So, they punted and picked 21.  They also diddled with the 3.0 GPA requirement.  It&#8217;s still an either\/or, but now homeschoolers are included:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 3.0 or 21 ACT standard also applies uniformly regardless of where the student goes to school, be it a public high school, home school or non-accredited private high school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, homeschoolers are eligible if they can claim to have a 3.0?  That&#8217;s going to lead to some interesting problems.  I expect another &#8220;technical fix&#8221; in next year&#8217;s session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TN legislature passed the bill &#8220;fixing&#8221; the HOPE scholarship program. The Senate wanted to raise it to 23 for everyone like it is currently for homeschoolers. The House wanted to lower the homeschooler&#8217;s requirement to 19 like everyone else. So, they punted and picked 21. They also diddled with the 3.0 GPA requirement. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}