The PEP scholarship states HS students will continue to report their volunteering hours to their local school district's homeschool office.
Can anyone guide me on how this works?
Do we wait till the student collects all 100 hrs to send it to our homeschool office? Do we send the hours as they are completed? Is there a deadline? Do I sound as confused and lost as I feel? Lol
Also, since the student is no longer registered with the county, how will the district know what to do with those hours?
Student wll be eligible to start collecting volunteering hours this summer and I want to make sure I don't miss or mess up his Bright Future's eligibility.
We are in PBC.
Thank you.
Thank you kindly for your detailed answer.
Any additional steps to be taken as a PEP student?
You don't submit them to the county until your child's senior year. The Bright Futures application portal opens on Oct 1st each year and that is when you can create his/her student account. Then you can send the service or work hours documentation to the county and ask them to verify it for Bright Futures. Bright Futures has their system set up so that counties and schools can verify hours electronically. You just need to provide some basic identifying student information and the proper documentation of hours. Your county will know what to do. The deadline to earn hours is the student's high school graduation date. However, the deadline to submit documentation is August 31st. The Bright Futures handbook has good information: https://www.floridastudentfinancialaidsg.org/PDF/BFHandbookChapter1.pdf