Amends existing law to increase the Advanced Opportunities funding for both public school students and nonpublic school students, to remove a spending cap for certain eligible courses, and to revise provisions regarding the administration of the program for nonpublic school students.

This legislation amends Idaho code section 33-4602 to increase the amount of advanced opportunity funds per publicschoolstudentby$500, from$4,125to$4,625toassiststudentswhoareworkingtoachieveanassociate degree while still in high school through the attainment of dual credits. There are just under 600 students who have maxed out their advanced opportunity funding. This legislation also removes the restrictive expenditure caps on CTE workforce training courses. This legislation amends Idaho code section 33-4603 to increase the amount of advanced opportunity funds per non-public school student from by $1,750, from $750 to $2,500 and modifies the payment structure to allow for the State Department of Education to pay the Idaho higher education institutions directly for dual credit courses taken by non-public students. There are just under 300 non-public students participating in this program.