The Florida Senate introduced Bill 5101 (2025) – The Florida Senate Bill HB 1501 on March 26th and it is a revision to the Education Estimating Conference, Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, FEFP, & K-12 funding. The Bill was read for a second time and passed on April 9th with 80 yeas and 27 nays and they acceded to conference.
This act relates to education, it is requiring governmental agencies to provide the Office of Economic and Demographic Research with specified data, requiring nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to submit specified information to the conference, requiring the conference’s forecasted scholarships to be made available to and reviewed by nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations, revising the purpose of the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, prohibiting school districts from reporting specified students for funding in the Florida Education Finance Program, revising the requirements for certain scholarships to no longer remain in force and student ineligibility criteria.
This bill will affect Dual Enrollment, AP, and IB programs. It will also cut funding for scholarships and other financial aid help for students. With the federal government already cutting the Department of Education’s funding and working to dismantle it as a whole, these rounds of funding cuts will affect every child in public education.
Virginia Young • Apr 17, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Why would you people want to steal from the children? We most certainly will get even with all of you at the polls. I am anxiously awaiting the time for the next elections!!!