Loren is Right, although SCCA schools are still mainly for club racing, mostly saftey and Flags etc. not much for the very novice. the big kicker for most is .... FROM
Sports Car Club of America
"To attend an SCCA Driver School, you must arrange for your own properly prepared race car. You will also need approved driving gear, including an SCCA approved helmet. If you do not have a race car, you will have to rent or lease one in order to attend a school"

So a race car with a cage, Firesuit, SA200+ Helmet. plus the schools are usually between $500 and $1500

That is why many people applying for SCCA licensing go to a Bondurant, Panoz, Barber, yadda yadda yadda. SCCA is supposed to start doing more HPDE (I allways confuse this with High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
style events, but I have not seen the offical word on this.

Yes in Nasa FL you can be signed off to solo after only one HDPE-1 (not a great idea) I reccomend at least 2-3 events before making the jump nasa southeast has instructors for Hdpe 1 and 2. (2 is much faster) then solo you on 3

Mainly since Autocross (which was once the feeder series for solo-1 then club racing) has become it's own sport they are going to start pulling in marque clubs and their driving school programs like NASA has allready done.