Can I use my LA GATOR Scholarship for a reading program?
The short answer, then how it pays today, what you have to keep, and what it costs.
The short answer
Yes. Curriculum and educational software are covered under the LA GATOR Scholarship, and A New Page is a structured-literacy reading curriculum for struggling and dyslexic readers, ages 3 to 18. LA GATOR is new and still expanding, and approval is your administrator's call.
LA GATOR awards are $5,243 standard, $7,626 at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level, and up to $15,253 with an IEP.
The reading check is free for everyone. No account needed, right in your browser.
How it pays today
Reimbursement today, direct pay pending. A New Page is an approved LA GATOR vendor on Odyssey, and our offering, SKU ANP-READING-ANNUAL at $399 a year, listed under Educational Material Subscriptions, is in final marketplace review. The day it goes live you will search for A New Page in your LA GATOR marketplace and pay straight from your ESA. Until then, buy the annual license and file for reimbursement.
Step by step
- Start A New Page and choose the $399 annual Reading Curriculum Term License, one single charge, which is what education programs reimburse most easily.
- Download your itemized receipt. It lists the product as a structured-literacy reading curriculum and a 12-month term license.
- Submit it to your LA GATOR account through Odyssey, with your child's placement result and weekly progress reports as documentation.
- Get reimbursed from your education funds. Keep the receipt and the reports on file, and check this page, which we keep current, for the day direct pay goes live.
What to keep for your file
Every program wants proof the money bought instruction. A New Page gives you all three pieces.
- The placement result. The free reading check takes 5 to 10 minutes in your browser and shows where reading is breaking down.
- Weekly progress reports. What your child practiced, and how their one-minute reading check moved against their own past scores.
- An itemized receipt. Your receipt names a structured-literacy reading curriculum and a 12-month term license, with our EIN on it.
What it costs
$399 for a one-time, 12-month Reading Curriculum Term License. One charge, one receipt, every child in your family. That single clean line is what education programs handle most easily.
Prefer monthly out of pocket? $39 a month, also for the whole family. Either way you start with a free week and no card, and the reading check is free for everyone.
Why structured literacy, and not another reading app
A struggling reader, and a dyslexic reader especially, does not need more reading time. They need the code taught in order, one piece at a time, out loud, with enough practice to make each piece automatic before the next lands. That is structured literacy.
A New Page turns it into a story. Your child reads the hero's lines, you read the story around them, and those lines use the exact words from the step your child is on. About 15 minutes a night, reviewed by our Founding Literacy Advisor, an Orton-based reading specialist of 41 years.
Reading is not the thing they do before the story. Reading is how the story moves.
Questions Louisiana parents ask
Can I use my LA GATOR Scholarship for a reading program?
Yes. Curriculum and educational software are covered under LA GATOR, and A New Page is a structured-literacy reading curriculum. The program is new and still expanding, and approval is always your administrator's call.
How do I actually pay?
Today you buy the annual license and file the itemized receipt with your LA GATOR account through Odyssey. A New Page is an approved LA GATOR vendor on Odyssey, listed under Educational Material Subscriptions, and direct pay is in final marketplace review.
What documentation does the program ask for?
The placement result from the free reading check, the weekly progress reports, and an itemized receipt naming a structured-literacy reading curriculum and a 12-month term license.
What does it cost?
$399 once for a 12-month term license covering every child in your family, or $39 a month out of pocket. The reading check is free.
My child has struggled for years. Will this help?
If the current plan is not moving the needle, A New Page starts your child at the safest place, easy enough to win and hard enough to grow. Start with the free reading check.
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A New Page is an independent reading program, not diagnosis or therapy. Louisiana GATOR Scholarship rules change often, and final approval is up to your state administrator. A New Page is an eligible category of expense, not a guarantee. Not tax or legal advice.