Governor DeSantis has extended the deadline extended for the class of 2020 to qualify for Bright Futures, please read below.
Second chance for Bright Futures scholarships
Florida high school graduates have been given a second chance to boost their standardized test scores to earn the Bright Futures scholarship. Gov. Ron DeSantis has now issued an executive order to extend the deadline to qualify for the Bright Futures scholarship to December 1 2020 to allow the class of 2020 seniors three months to take the SAT or ACT. According to a report from the Florida Department of Education, more than 46,700 students were eligible for the Bright Futures scholarship in the 2018-2019 school year and the FDOE estimates that 32,000 Florida seniors qualified for the scholarship during the 2019-2020 school year - about a quarter of whom qualify for a 75% or 100% scholarship if they’re able to fulfill the standardized test requirement. At the height of the pandemic in the spring, many SAT and ACT tests were canceled, leaving nearly 1m students across the country scrambling to figure out what they’d do without scholarship funding that required SAT or ACT scores.
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