Florida’s Record School Choice & The Power of Community Unity – Top 3 Takeaways. School choice. With Floridians having now fully settled into the new school year, we have a clear picture about how Floridians decided to enter the new year...making use of school choice like never before. Florida has long been the national leader in school choice options but what’s happened as we’ve entered a new school year is an incredible expansion of parents and students making use of school choice like never before. This school year marks year two of Florida’s universal school choice law and as it has turned out, it’s the largest year of school choice expansion in Florida’s history. Prior to the passage of last year’s school choice law enabling all Floridian families to make use of vouchers worth $8,000 dollars or more, for the school of their choice, there were about 170,000 students using school vouchers in Florida. In year one of Florida’s school choice law, there was a significant increase (43%) to about 243,000 students at the start of the new school year. But year two is proving to have brought the biggest boom yet for school choice in Florida. The latest figures show approximately 488,500 students have started the new school year, in a school of their choosing. That’s a total representing over 17% of the total enrolled number of students K-12 and a total that’s greater than double last year’s total school choice enrollment at the same time. In my initial analysis of the impact of Florida’s new school choice law in April of 2023, I pointed out that the high-end estimate for the number of students who’d make use of school choice was 17.1%. In year two that’s what Florida’s school choice program is going to do which speaks to the...