CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Scholarship for Personalized Education Program (PEP) Students

"Florida students who are not full-time private or public school students can access the Personalized Education Program (PEP) through the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. This scholarship provides an education savings account (ESA) to fund the educational needs of eligible students."

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Get more information here: https://www.stepupforstudents.org/scholarships/personalized-education-program/​

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Some CIAS Umbrella School services and Campus School services are approved for PEP students, as long as they are not enrolled in our full-time Campus School option. CIAS services must be pre-paid to the school; then you will submit for reimbursement via your ESA account. Please talk about this program with us in person when you visit the school office or call to discuss your options.

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PEP Hybrid School Program

CIAS seeks to provide support and services to PEP students. In compliance with the new PEP rules, CIAS cannot provide direct umbrella school covering by enrolling students in our Umbrella School since PEP functions as their legal homeschool covering (the third option being enrolled as a home education student with the local district office). However, students may be enrolled in our PEP Hybrid Program. These students must physically attend the CIAS Campus School (brick and mortar location) two days per week, receiving direct instruction by Campus School teachers and participating in the daily class schedules in their grade-appropriate classrooms. 

 

In collaboration and cooperation between CIAS Administration and the PEP student's parent(s)/guardian(s), both a CIAS Curriculum List and a Student Learning Plan (SLP) will be created to outline the remaining three days of weekly homeschool instruction. The SLP is a customized learning plan developed by parents/guardians and revised annually to guide instruction for their students and to address the services needed to fulfill their academic needs. PEP parents/guardians must complete a SLP for each student prior to funding.

 

Homeschooling parents/guardians of PEP students must keep detailed Lesson Plans for the remainder of their school subjects, to be recorded in the CIAS Lesson Plan Books. Homeschool instruction provided by parents/guardians for the remaining three days per week will be monitored by CIAS administration in parent/teacher meetings (PTMs) periodically. Iowa Assessments, a state-approved norm-referenced test, will be administered annually to PEP students by CIAS teachers in the spring (during the month of April), which parent(s)/guardian(s) will then submit to their scholarship funding organization (SFO), such as Step Up for Students).

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