Family Empowerment Scholarship

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

Florida lawmakers created a voucher program three years ago called the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program. Since then, a new report finds the “flow of public funds to private education” has dramatically increased.

Florida's multiple private and home school scholarship programs have been consolidated into one: the Family Empowerment Scholarship. Now that the change is fully in effect, local school districts like Leon are seeing what it really means for their bottom line.

The Florida House and Senate are at odds over how to make good on Governor Ron DeSantis’s promise to eliminate a 13,000 student wait list for private…