Students applying to Florida's public universities will soon have the option of taking a third standardized test besides the staple SAT and ACT tests.

On Friday, the state university system board is expected to approve the use of the Classic Learning Test in college admissions, providing students with a third standardized test option.

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The approval marks a major milestone for the CLT, which was founded in 2015 as an alternative to the College Board's SAT, which has dominated standardized testing for college admissions.

The approval of the CLT for Florida's public colleges continues the Sunshine State's openness toward education resources outside of the mainstream. Earlier this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed legislation that allowed the state's Bright Futures scholarships to be tied to CLT scores. The state university board is stacked with DeSantis appointees.

The legislation was signed amid a standoff between the Florida Department of Education and the College Board over an Advanced Placement African American studies course that was in development. Florida officials said the pilot course's framework violated state law that forbids the teaching of critical race theory in schools.

Jeremy Tate, the founder and CEO of the CLT, told the Washington Examiner in a text Friday that the CLT's partnership with Florida makes clear the state is "the national leader in educational excellence."

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"They have [led] the way on school choice, transparency, and parental rights," Tate said. "It is a profound honor that CLT has been so highly esteemed in a state that is fighting to make education in America great again.”

What sets the CLT apart from its more established counterparts is a heavy reliance on older "classic" texts for its reading comprehension portions. The test relies on texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as the writings of William Shakespeare, Thomas Aquinas, Virgil, and Thomas Jefferson.