The Arizona Regents, Merit Scholarships, and Bios Christian Academy

The Arizona Board of Regents for the second year in a row is trying to do away with the AIMS merit scholarship. This scholarship is available to over sixty percent of our graduating seniors this year. It would be a major loss to this current class as well as to our future graduates. My schools average at least thirty-three percent of graduates being eligible for this state university scholarship each year.

The AIMS merit scholarship is awarded to all Arizona high school students who earn a score of "exceeds" on the reading, writing, and math portions of the test and earn a grade of "A" or "B" in their high school core classes. They have up to three attempts to earn this score their tenth or eleventh grades.

While the state average for earning this scholarship is six percent for graduates, ours has always been between thirty and seventy percent of our graduating classes being eligible to use it.

The scholarship covers the tuition and fees set at the freshman year.