school vouchers

The audit looked at funding accountability challenges for the 2024-2025 school year.

School board members are concerned the district may be forced by the state to give unused space to charter schools under the Schools for Hope program.

A legislative panel grilled voucher funding executives and an education department director about how to avoid another funding crisis in the school choice program.

Florida's school choice program enables per-pupil spending to follow the student. That has more students leaving traditional public schools, as we hear on Speaking Of.

"We can't continue to have a death by a thousand cuts," says Sarasota Superintendent Terry Connor, who had to eliminate some support staff this year.

Despite proposing nearly $30 billion for K-12 education, advocates say it’s not enough.

More than 386,000 applications for the upcoming school year have been submitted, surpassing the number of vouchers awarded last school year.

Proponents of the scholarships have touted them as allowing families to customize students’ educations.

Six weeks into the school year, families of special needs students still have not received school vouchers following a major expansion of the program in Florida.

Sadaf Knight, CEO of the Florida Policy Institute, breaks down how the expansion of school vouchers in the state is playing out.