Florida's Step Up For Students Handles over a Billion Dollars in Student Vouchers
- Mary Chadsey
- Feb 24
- 1 min read
Is it any wonder they're getting sued?
Oh, this is good stuff.
Even if we’re only at the School Vouchers for Dummies level, one can sense a little sump'n, sump’n going on with Florida’s voucher program and it smells like a prison chow hall of arm pits, ramen noodles and some Irish Spring to cover the stench.
Vouchers consist of donor money and tax-payer funding when it comes to who pays for school choice. That means you and I are included in the mishegoss. Florida has it set up so our taxes are paying for the rich kid living in the next neighborhood over to attend private school.
To add insult to injury, as we shovel the sand on the beach - we discover we don’t get to choose from all the pretty array of schools; the schools decide if they dig us or not.
Even a charter school can say they don’t have the programs to take a certain student who may need specialized help or transportation to their location. If a student is displaying behavioral problems, the schools can find an out for your juvenile delinquent child. (I call those kids free-thinking rebels with a cause.)
Public schools, bless their brick and mortar hearts, have to accept everyone. No child is left behind.
The non-profit corporation Step Up For Students (SUFS) is tasked in Florida with delegating and following where the voucher money is going. It’s not that complicated.