Florida's Hidden Voucher Expansion: Over $1 Billion from Public Schools to Fund Private Education

Autor/inn/en	McKillip, Mary; Dollard, Norín
Institution	Education Law Center
Titel	Florida's Hidden Voucher Expansion: Over $1 Billion from Public Schools to Fund Private Education
Quelle	(2022), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Vouchers; Private Education; Educational Finance; Funding Formulas; State Policy; State Aid; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Privatunterricht; Bildungsfonds; Funding; Finanzierung
Abstract	Over the past four years, Florida has seen tremendous growth in the amount of public funds being spent on private education. This report finds that in 2022-23, an estimated $1.3 billion in funding will be redirected from public school districts to private education, representing 10% of state K-12 education funds allocated through the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP), the state's school funding formula. The movement of public funding to private education occurs in the context of Florida's substantial underfunding of the state's public schools, as highlighted in "Making the Grade 2021" (ED619401). Florida receives an F on an A-F scale on all three funding metrics: funding level, funding distribution, and funding effort. Since 2019, the flow of public funds to private education dramatically increased after the State Legislature enacted the Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) program. While voucher programs are often funded as line-item appropriations in the state budget or through state tax credits, the FES voucher is funded from FEFP state allocations that would otherwise be directed to the student's resident public school district. In 2021, legislation expanded eligibility for the FES voucher program resulting in even more state tax dollars being re-routed from public school districts to private education throughout the state. [This report was co-authored by the Florida Policy Institute and developed in collaboration with Public Funds Public Schools, a project of ELC and the Southern Poverty Law Center.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01