Not all students learn the same way. That’s way Step Up For Students exists: to give those Florida schoolchildren who need it most, the learning options that work best for them.
Step Up For Students is a nonprofit scholarship funding organization that helps administer five programs for Florida schoolchildren. Download their flyer here.
Income-Based Scholarships
Two scholarships are available for lower-income students: the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship and Family Empowerment Scholarship. The Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) is also available to active military families, regardless of rank or pay.
Special needs Scholarship
The Gardiner Scholarship helps Florida families customize education for their children with certain special needs who are ages 3 through 22. The scholarship covers 17 diagnoses.
BULLIED STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
The Hope Scholarship Program provides relief to students bullied in a public school. To qualify, the incident must have taken place at a public K-12 educational institution, any school-related or school-sponsored program or activity, including riding on the school bus or waiting at the bus stop.
Education Plans, Foster Child or Service Member Scholarship
The McKay Scholarship Program provides relief to students with an Individual Education Plan (IEP)* or 504 Accommodation Plan, is a foster child, or a dependent child of a member of the United States Armed Forces who transfers to a school in Florida from out of state or from a foreign country pursuant to a parent’s permanent change of station orders.