Part two of WESH 2’s investigation into universal school choice vouchers features a local mother using state dollars for homeschooling and how Step Up's purchasing guides allow reimbursements ...

A universal school voucher plan to use tax dollars to pay private school tuition is ready for floor debate in the Florida House. Friday, the House Education Quality Subcommittee amended HB 1 to ...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate gave final approval Thursday to bills creating universal school vouchers and legal reforms aimed at limiting lawsuits and sent them to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his ...

In 2023, Florida passed a bill expanding eligibility for school vouchers to all students. While vouchers have been around for more than 20 years, the now-universal voucher program allows any ...

Two years after the Florida Policy Institute (FPI) predicted a high price tag for Florida’s universal school vouchers, the independent non-profit’s analysts say it's coming true.. A new report ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed into law one of the largest private school voucher expansions in the nation, following similar moves by several other conservative states since the start ...

Universal school choice programs have been gaining steam across Republican states. These programs give participating families state funding to educate their kids outside of public schools, and are pro ...

Read the report: Millions flow to wealthy families, pricey private schools under Florida’s supercharged voucher program. School-by-school data is not yet available for the current, 2024-25 ...

But Texas isn’t the first big state to launch a universal private school choice plan. In 2023, Florida lawmakers expanded an existing school voucher program, making every student in the state ...

This coming school year, under vouchers for anyone, we will have 17,912 voucher students at a cost of $168 million. That’s a budget-busting 10-fold increase in just a few years.

These school vouchers, funded by taxpayers, can help pay for private school or cover homeschooling expenses. In 2023, Florida passed a bill expanding eligibility for school vouchers to all students.