Florida Scholarships Give K-12 Students Educational Options

The Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program (FTC) and the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options (FES-EO)

Florida’s two private school scholarship programs, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program and the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options (FES-EO) give students learning options not available to them because of their financial circumstances.

Both programs provide private school scholarships or help with transportation costs to an out-of-district public school.

Florida also offers the first-of-its-kind education savings account program for parents wishing to provide a home education program for their child called the Personalized Education Program (PEP).

Urban Institute Study

A first-of-its-kind student on the long-term effects of the scholarship program found that FTC scholarship students are up to 43 percent more likely to go to college and up to 29 percent more likely to earn an associate's degree. See fact sheet here.

Florida Department of Education Reports

More than a decade of research by academics at the University of Florida, Northwestern University and now Florida State University, have found that once on the scholarship program, students who had been struggling academically now maintain pace with the average student nationally.