ERIC Number: ED611908
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 10
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Florida's Hope Scholarships for Bullied Students: A Report Card. Issue Brief
Eden, Max
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Education reformers have long lamented America's persistent racial and socioeconomic achievement gap and framed school choice as a means to provide low-income students of color trapped in failing schools with a ticket to a better education. Yet when parents who participate in school choice programs in states like Georgia or Indiana have been surveyed, at least half of them cite safety as a primary motivating factor. Florida's Hope Scholarship program, signed into law on March 11, 2018, enables students who have been subjected to bullying--regardless of disability status, income, or district school performance--to transfer to another public school or provides them with a tuition tax credit scholarship to use at an approved private school. To inform ongoing and potential state-level debates around anti-bullying voucher or tuition tax credit programs, this paper describes the basic mechanics of Florida's anti-bullying scholarship, the political origin and debate around its passage, and the program's implementation to date.
Descriptors: Bullying, School Safety, At Risk Students, Transfer Students, School Choice, Public Schools, Private Schools, Tuition, Tax Credits, Scholarships, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Program Implementation, Access to Information, Parent Attitudes, Enrollment, Educational Vouchers
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Manhattan Institute (MI)
Identifiers - Location: Florida
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