Nevada has approved ESA (Educational Savings Accounts) for any and all students and parents will get $5,000/year to spend. Will this happen in Florida?

As more and more parents and citizens catch on to the public school
implementation of Common Core, they are pressuring State legislators to
provide school choice.

Well, now ANY student's parents in Nevada can pull their kid from public
schools and get $5,000 per year for homeschooling
, etc.
I know the cost per child in Florida is over $7,000 but watch for this - as
the article says,

Nevada approves $5000 K-12 school choice program for all students. Parents
get $5000 in a "educational services account" (ESA) debit card account to
pay for "educational services".

"Pioneered in Arizona in 2011, education savings accounts allot a certain
amount of public money for parents to educate their children. Money can be
spent on private school tuition, textbooks, tutoring, and other educational
expenses."

"ESA programs in Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi are only
available to students who fall into particular demographics, but Nevada's is
touted as the first universal ESA program available to any student who's
spent the previous 100 days enrolled in a public school."

I would like to point out that for each student switching to school choice,
the state saves not only the annual teacher cost, but buying computers, IT,
pensions and benefits, capital cost of building new schools (and sidewalks),
thus giving parents $5000 in Florida as a school choice program may actually
save Florida taxpayers $2000 per student in avoided costs. Additionally,
for each school choice student, there is no busing costs, security costs, no
liability,

Now, what about disabled kids? The State may pay up to five times the
normal student annual fee to public schools. That could be $25,000 or more
per year, which may be another reason.

There could also be social costs where low income folks switch their kids to
school choice programs at a lower cost just to get access to the funds. If
the government cannot control fraud over food stamp debit cards, what do you
think will happen with school choice debit cards?

That is why outsourcing in corporations is successful. The consultants
selling it point out the savings in capital for computers, space, etc. which
reduces overall capital needs.

Will this happen in Florida due to unhappiness over Common Core?

Vance Jochim
FiscalRangers.com