Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program

The Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program was a school voucher program in the U.S. state of Florida. It provided students from failing public schools in Florida with school vouchers enabling them to choose a "higher performing public school or a participating private school." A failing public school was: "a school that has received two “F” grades within a four-year period." [1][2]

The program was declared unconstitutional in a January 5, 2006 ruling and students assigned to a failing school are no longer allowed to transfer and enroll in a participating private school while "the option to attend a higher performing public school remains in effect."

There is also a university scholarship program in Florida known as the Florida Opportunity Scholars Program (FOS) program [3]

See also

School voucher

References

  1. ↑ Opportunity Scholarship Program Florida Department of Education
  2. ↑ Text of statute
  3. ↑
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