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The number of private schools in Florida has increased by 600 in the past 10 years, according to the most recent data available from the Florida Department of Education from the 2022-23 school year.
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In March 2023, Florida's school choice program expanded by removing the income-eligibility requirements that were part of the previous programs. This made all students eligible for taxpayer-backed vouchers as of the 2023-2024 school year. [2] Florida's public school options include magnet schools, academies, charter schools and other programs.
[60] [61] [62] In contrast, the use of public-school funding for vouchers to private schools was disallowed by the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2013. The Louisiana Supreme Court did not declare vouchers unconstitutional, just the use of money earmarked for public schools via the Louisiana Constitution for funding Louisiana's voucher program. [63]
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-reaching laws affecting education passed by the United States Congress, and was reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
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From the end of the Reconstruction era in the 1870s until the 1940s, the state and local governments gave far less money to all-black public schools compared to the favored white public schools. (There were no racially integrated schools.) However, many private schools for Blacks were funded by Northern philanthropy well into the 20th century.