
Step Up For Students is a state-approved nonprofit scholarship funding organization that helps administer five scholarships for Florida schoolchildren: the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program (FTC) and the Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) for lower-income families, the
Gardiner Scholarship for children with certain special needs, the
Hope Scholarship for public school students who are bullied or victims of violence and the
Reading Scholarship Accounts for public school students in third through fifth grade who struggle with reading.