Florida School Choice
Florida school choice options offer families a range of educational options to support personalized learning for their children.
Florida Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options
Florida Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options (FES-EO) empowers families to make personalized education decisions for their children. This school choice program provides funding for K-12 students to cover private school tuition, fees, approved educational materials, and services. Recent enhancements have expanded eligibility criteria, removed financial restrictions, and increased flexibility in fund usage.
Florida Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities
Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA) empowers families of children with disabilities to access additional education options. The Florida school choice program allows parents to use Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for various educational expenses. These expenses include private school tuition, homeschooling options, therapies, and tutoring.
The Opportunity Scholarship
The Opportunity Scholarship Program is a school choice program which offers students who attended or who were assigned to attend failing public schools the option to choose a higher performing public school.
Florida Tax Credit Scholarship
Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarships provides scholarships to low-income students to attend private schools or receive transportation to public schools outside their district. This program relies on business donations incentivized by tax credits, rather than automatic public funding.
Personalized Education Program
Florida students who are not full-time private or public school students can access the Personalized Education Program (PEP) through the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. This scholarship provides an education savings account (ESA) to fund the educational needs of eligible students.
The Hope Scholarship
The Hope Scholarship is for Florida public school students in grades K-12 who are bullied or are a victim of violence. The scholarship allows the student to transfer to another public school with capacity. Alternatively, it allows the student to receive a scholarship to enroll in an approved private school by applying for a Family Empowerment or Florida Tax Credit Scholarship. Families are encouraged to apply to these programs after reporting the incident through their student’s public school.