Step Up For Students One Million Reasons to Celebrate

Step Up For Students is a non-profit organization that helps administer the donor-funded, income-based Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. The scholarship program provides tuition assistance to the private school of their parents’ choice, or financial assistance to offset the transportation cost to an out-of- district public school. Since 2002, Step Up For Students has awarded more than 1 million Florida Tax Credit Scholarships.

In February 2019, the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, released results of a study on the effectiveness of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, the nation’s largest private K-12 scholarship program. The study found that students on scholarship for four or more years were up to 99% more likely to attend a four-year college than their peers in public school, and up to 45% more likely to earn bachelor’s degrees.

Step Up also helps administer that state-funded the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities, plus three other scholarships, the income-based Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options, the Hope Scholarship for public school students who are bullied, and the Reading Scholarship Accounts for third- through fifth-grade students enrolled in public school who struggle with reading.

For more information, visit www.StepUpForStudents.org