Florida tax credit scholarship program

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

The League of Women Voters of Florida is out with a report casting the state’s largest tax credit scholarship agency as a "money management/marketing firm operating as a charity.” The League is also blasting a legislative effort to consolidate Florida’s multiple school choice programs.

Step Up For Students has awarded its millionth education choice scholarship. The organization was founded in 2002 and serves around 140,000 students a year.

Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program has come under fire after an Orlando Sentinel investigation reported some participating private schools have…