<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/blogs/legislative-news/2025/2025-02-07.aspx" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>02/07/2025</pubDate><title>State Board-requested bills on College Bound Scholarship, high school completion tuition waivers heard in committee</title><description>Hearings continued into their fourth week, with House and Senate higher education committees hearing State Board-requested bills on expanding eligibility for the College Bound Scholarship and waiving tuition for students in high school completion courses. In the Senate, members of the Senate Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee learned more about system Basic Education for Adults programs.</description><author>SBCTC Communications</author><category>basic education for adults, waiver, college bound, trustees, Native American</category><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><image-caption/></item>