Family Empowerment Scholarship Program
Family Empowerment Scholarship Program
Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for Students With Unique Abilities
Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for Students With Unique Abilities
The Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for Students With Unique Abilities is designed to offer families of students with disabilities, as young as 3 years of age, access to a personal education savings account (ESA) for their student. With an ESA, parents receive a deposit of public funds into government-authorized savings accounts with restricted, but multiple, uses. An ESA can be used to fund not only items such as private school tuition and fees, but also online learning programs, private tutoring, community college costs, higher education expenses and other approved customized learning services and materials.
The Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for Students With Unique Abilities is designed to offer families of students with disabilities, as young as 3 years of age, access to a personal education savings account (ESA) for their student. With an ESA, parents receive a deposit of public funds into government-authorized savings accounts with restricted, but multiple, uses. An ESA can be used to fund not only items such as private school tuition and fees, but also online learning programs, private tutoring, community college costs, higher education expenses and other approved customized learning services and materials.
The FES-UA also provides the student’s parent(s) an opportunity to enroll the student in another public school in the school district or in a public school in an adjacent school district that has available space and has a program with the services agreed to in the student’s IEP already in place.
The FES-UA also provides the student’s parent(s) an opportunity to enroll the student in another public school in the school district or in a public school in an adjacent school district that has available space and has a program with the services agreed to in the student’s IEP already in place.
Families apply and annually renew for participation in FES-UA through one of the approved Scholarship Funding Organization (SFO), which are responsible for determining eligibility, awarding and distributing funding to eligible student accounts, and approving eligible expenditures.
Families apply and annually renew for participation in FES-UA through one of the approved Scholarship Funding Organization (SFO), which are responsible for determining eligibility, awarding and distributing funding to eligible student accounts, and approving eligible expenditures.
How do I apply?
How do I apply?
- To apply or learn more about the FES-UA, as well as Florida’s other school choice options, visit the scholarship funding organizations websites listed below or please contact your school district's Parental Choice Office. You may also contact the Florida Department of Education, Office of Independent Education and Parental Choice at (800) 447-1636 or visit the school choice website at https://www.fldoe.org/schools/schoolchoice/.
- Please note this document serves only to notify you that your child may be eligible to participate in the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for Students With Unique Abilities. This notice does not guarantee your child's eligibility.
- For additional information please contact the Clay County District's Exceptional Student Education Department.
Scholarship Funding Organizations (SFOs)
Scholarship Funding Organizations (SFOs)
Step Up for Students
Step Up for Students
Phone Number: 877-735- 7837
Phone Number: 877-735- 7837
A.A.A. Scholarship Foundation
A.A.A. Scholarship Foundation
Phone Number: 888-707- 2465
Phone Number: 888-707- 2465
Email Address: info@aaascholarships.org
Email Address: info@aaascholarships.org
FLDOE School Choice
FLDOE School Choice
Florida Department of Education
Florida Department of Education
School Choice Office Main Line: (850) 245- 0502
School Choice Office Main Line: (850) 245- 0502
Toll Free Hotline: (800) 447- 1636
Toll Free Hotline: (800) 447- 1636