Tuition

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Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship

Autism Solutions Academy is a Carson Smith-approved school. Our students are able to apply for funding through the Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship. The scholarship is a Utah scholarship that provides tuition assistance for special education students in public and private schools for children ages preschool through 12th grade.

To qualify for the scholarship, the student’s legal guardian or parents must be a Utah resident and must have a letter of enrollment from Autism Solutions Academy.

The Children's First Fund

The Children’s First Fund is a private scholarship fund awarded to those that meet the income requirements. The student’s parent or legal guardian must reside in the state of Utah, and the student must have a recent evaluation to be eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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Tuition and Scholarships

When applying for one of these scholarships, you will be required to waive any and all rights to public education programs including after school programs. The funding you receive from any of the above mentioned scholarships will go towards your private school tuition which covers the special education services you receive at the school.

The Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship is not accepting new applications. Students who were on the Carson Smith Scholarship will be grandfathered into the Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship. Remaining tuition not covered by the Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship is supplemented with the Autism Solutions Academy Scholarship.

The scholarship coordinator will assist parents in applying for this scholarship.

The 2024 Utah State Legislature passed a bill merging the Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship program with the Carson Smith Scholarship program. New students will apply for the new scholarship. Students who were on Carson Smith will stay on it until their three-year evaluation is up. All of the terms and conditions of the program will remain the same, and then the program will continue to be administered by USBE.

To be eligible for a scholarship under the Utah Special Needs Opportunity

Scholarship Act, a student must meet all of the following requirements:

The student and the student’s custodial parent or legal guardian must reside within the State of Utah throughout the entire school year.
The student must have a qualifying disability as defined under the federal Individual with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA). The disability must be verified within the prior 36 months by one of the following documents:
1. Individual Education Plan (IEP)
2. Assessment Team Member Record (ATMR)
3. Multidisciplinary Team Evaluation (MDT)
The student must be eligible to participate in preschool or kindergarten through grade 12 in public school.
The student must not be attending public or charter school when the scholarship is awarded. An application can be submitted while a student is enrolled in public school, but before the award can be received, the student must have unenrolled from public school and have been accepted at a private school or declared to be homeschooled.
The student cannot receive the legacy Carson Smith scholarship or the Utah Fits All scholarship in the same year of this scholarship.

The 2024 Utah State Legislature passed a bill merging the Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship program with the Carson Smith Scholarship program. New students will apply for the new scholarship. Students who were on Carson Smith will stay on it until their three-year evaluation is up. All of the terms and conditions of the program will remain the same, and the program will continue to be administered by USBE.

When parents are applying for the scholarship they will be approved based on the household income and number of children in the family. You will need to provide your 2023 federal 1040 tax return and any additional dependent statements that were filed with the return. A student will be approved for the full amount if they are approved for 180+ minutes of special education services. If they are approved for 180 minutes or less, they will only be approved for the partial scholarship.

More information and the application can be found at:

https://cfe-fund.org/

Remaining tuition not covered by the Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship is supplemented with the Autism Solutions Academy Scholarship. The scholarship coordinator will assist parents in applying for this scholarship.