We get questions every day if PEP students can use their funds toward paying for their homeschool co-op dues/membership/registration. They would like to use this to enroll their family into the program as we share educational classes together, and share the costs associated with planning, purchasing materials, paying for the facility, insurance, etc. through the co-op. Thanks.
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Can PEP students use funds to pay for co-op registration?
Can PEP students use funds to pay for co-op registration?
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Thanks!
I believe that the co-op would need to meet the requirements of a home education instructional program, first of all. You can find those in the Purchasing Guide (available in our Helpful Docs/Download page here: http://flhef.org/downloads).
Even then, they would likely only cover classes/fees that fell within the other guidelines in that purchase guide. (For example, I used to direct a home education instructional program, and the UA scholarship did not always cover every fee for students in our program---they didn't cover Study Hall or some other things. I'm assuming that might also be the case for PEP.) I can ask Brenda for clarification on this, but also... if it ends up it's not covered but you believe it should be, you could (1) submit feedback to Step Up via their Purchase Guide Feedback Form here (they are taking feedback from parents and will not be finalizing the guide until December), and (2) possibly use the pre-authorization request inside the Step Up portal (once it's released) to ask for your specific co-op to be covered if you can justify to them why it should be (pre-authorization is recommended for cases where something falls outside the usual approved categories in the Purchasing Guide, but where the parent believes it should be considered an eligible purchase and wants to make a case for having it covered).