The Republican-controlled House on Friday passed a measure that would make every Florida student eligible for taxpayer-backed school vouchers.
House members voted 83-27 along almost-straight party lines to pass the bill. The Senate could consider a similar bill as early as next week.
“This bill is an $8,000 gift card to the millionaires and billionaires who are being gifted with a state-sponsored coupon for something they can already afford,” Woodson said. “Competition works. Competition makes public schools better. Competition makes private schools better. And the other systems that we actually are encouraging by these education savings accounts,” Massullo said during debate on the House floor.
Home-schooled students who receive the vouchers would be classified as participating in a “personalized education program” under the bill. “I’m really concerned that, come 2027-28, and I’m just basing this on the staff analysis and their figures, one scholarship organization is going to have maybe , 600,000 students. That is bigger than Dade County and Broward County combined,” he said.
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