Its Official: Florida's Expanded Voucher Program is a Handout to the Rich

wgbgator · Feb 14, 2025

None of this will be a shock to anyone, the state of Florida is now transferring massive public subsidies to the private sector.

Florida's voucher overhaul hands millions to wealthy families

The implications of that shift are vast, an Orlando Sentinel analysis has found.

Voucher use has jumped by 67% since the new law was approved.

Individual private schools are seeing even bigger surges, creating new reliance on taxpayer funding. The Sentinel found nearly 250 schools where the number of students using vouchers jumped by at least 100 children in the first year after the law changed. At St. Margaret Mary, the growth pushed total annual voucher funding from $65,000 to $3.5 million – in just one example of the multi-million dollar windfalls.

A significant amount of the money is flowing to Florida’s most expensive private schools, many of which served few voucher students in the past: Campuses that advertise annual tuition of $15,000 or more added more than 30,000 voucher students last year.

The proportion of private school students with state scholarships has topped 70% this school year. Ten years ago it was less than a third.

More Florida students use vouchers — a total of 352,860 — to attend private campuses than are enrolled in public schools in Osceola, Orange and Seminole counties combined.

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sierragator · Feb 14, 2025

say it ain't so!

WC53 · Feb 14, 2025

Shocked!
Just like digital book subscriptions and curriculum. Carpetbaggers

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