If your child has been awarded a PEP scholarship, PLEASE MAKE SURE that your Student Learning Plan (SLP) for 2024-2025 has been submitted!
(NOTE: If your student has PEP through AAA, please check with them to ensure you've completed all requirements! The remainder of this post is about parents who have been awarded PEP through Step Up for Students.)
We have received word from Step Up that there are 10,000 awarded PEP students whose SLPs have not yet been submitted.
The deadline to submit your SLP for 2024-2025 is July 31, 2024. If you have not submitted your SLP, your child will not be funded!
Even if you have submitted an SLP, we highly suggest you take a minute and verify that it is actually showing submitted under your child's account. If you submitted or updated an SLP prior to mid-June 2024, when they added the specific 2024-2025 SLP dropdown, that was LAST YEAR'S Student Learning Plan you updated, not this year's! SLPs need to have been submitted as 2024-2025 SLPs to meet the requirement.
How to confirm you have submitted your 2024-2025 Student Learning Plan:
(Note: These screenshots are from the Desktop view of EMA, but the steps will be the same in the mobile version of EMA.)
1. Log in to your Step Up for Students EMA account, then click on My Students at either of these locations in the dashboard.
2. Click "View Student" on your PEP student's info box. (You can click on any of your awarded PEP students at this step; you will be able to view the status of ALL of your awarded PEP students' SLPs later in the process.)
3. Click the "Open Student Learning Plan" box at the top of that student's info page.
4. Make sure you have selected 2024-2025 in the dropdown box, then look for the "Status" column. Here you should see all of your awarded students listed, with a Status for their SLPs. Check to make sure they all say "Complete."
If any do not say "Complete", then you still to create & submit a 2024-2025 SLP for that student!
If the SLP is not Complete, that student's row in the chart should show a "Create" link for creating a 2024-2025 Student Learning Plan, and you can go ahead and do that!
We highly recommend that ALL parents who have 2024-2025 awarded PEP students double-check that their SLP is showing Complete in EMA, just in case. We would hate for anyone to miss funding because their SLP was not submitted by the July 31st deadline!
I have a UA student that is listed here prompting me to submit an SLP for the UA student also with my PEP students. Has something changed that we need to submit a SLP for the UA students?