Alabama legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Alabama HB266: Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma opti
Status: Signed into law, May 14, 2025
Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma option for students 17 years of age and older who withdraw from school through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System; to provide for the sharing of data on students who drop out of high school; and to provide that participating students are eligible for driver's licenses
What the bill says
An Act, Relating to public education; to create the Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act; to establish a nontraditional high school diploma option, through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System, as an additional pathway through which a student may earn a high school diploma; to provide for the duties of the Alabama Community College System, the State Superintendent of Education, and the State Department of Education…
From the enrolled text:
An Act, Relating to public education; to create the Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act; to establish a nontraditional high school diploma option, through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System, as an additional pathway through which a student may earn a high school diploma; to provide for the duties of the Alabama Community College System, the State Superintendent of Education, and the State Department of Education; to require the Alabama Community College System to annually summarize and report on the effectiveness of the program to the Legislature; to amend Section 16-28-3.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for the information provided to a student and his or her parents or legal guardian during the exit interview from high school and to require the sharing of data between the State Department of Education and the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System regarding students who have withdrawn from high school; and to amend Section 16-28-40, Code of Alabama 1975, to include proof of participating in a nontraditional high school diploma option program as a reason to allow an individual under the age of 19 to receive a driver's or learner's license. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited …