In 2016, Idaho adopted the Advanced Opportunities program, an innovative approach to giving flexibility and educational choice to K-12 students. Through this program, all students in 7th through 12th grade are given a one-time sum of $4,125 in a state-managed account that can be used for college credit courses, exam fees, overload courses, workforce training, and mastery-based course credits. Though recently expanded to non-public school students, the program has been almost entirely used by public school students and has been extremely popular. In the 2020-2021 school year, 37,880 Idaho students used the program, including more than half of the state’s
