Step Up For Students

Florida tax credit scholarship program:in the 2020-21 school year, 104,165 underprivileged Students attended 1,938 private schools on a Step Up for Students' tax credit scholarship. The k-12 scholarship program was created in 2001 to help alleviate the enormous educational challenges faced by children who live in poverty, and it is now the largest such scholarship in the nation. Eligible Students could receive maximun scholarships of $8,715, depending on grade level and county residence, for private school tuition and fees or Up to $750 in transportation costs to attend an out-of-district public school. The average household income for participants was just 24% above the federal poverty level, and 56% of the Students were from single-parent households.a study on standardized test scores released in july 2020 showed that scholarship Students achieved the same gains in reading and math as Students of all income levels nationally, even as the Students who chose the scholarship were among the poorest and lowest-performing Students from the public schools they left behind. In february 2019, the urban institute reported that scholarship Students are 43 percent more likely than their public-school peers to attend college and 20 percent more likely to earn bacholer's degrees.

The gardiner scholarship account program: in the 2020-21 school year, Step Up administered a statewide scholarship available to special-needs Students with specific disabilities that include: autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, spina bifida, intellectual disability,williams syndrome, and more. for 2020-21, the program served 17,880 Students who received scholarships worth an average of $10,249 each. The program empowers families to choose the educational services that best meet the needs of their student, and the money can be spent for schools, therapists, specialists, curriculum, technology - even a college savings account.

The Alabama opportunity scholarship fund (alosf) is a scholarship granting organization formed to implement the Alabama acountability act. Alosf awards scholarships to eligible low-income k5-12th grade Students with priority given to Students who are zoned to attend a failing public school. The scholarships pay for private school tuition or transfer fees to a non-failing public school. The first scholarships were granted for the semester starting january 2014. Alosf has awarded over 12,000 scholarships over 6 1/2 years representing 46 of the 67 counties in Alabama. The scholarships are funded by donations of income tax liability from individuals and corporations who receive an Alabama state income tax credit.