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ERIC Number: ED611908
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 10
Abstractor: ERIC
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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.
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Tel: 212-599-7000; Fax: 212-599-3494; Web site: http://www.manhattan-institute.org
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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