We're not the Florida they put on postcards, but school choice works for us too

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : They've said school choice can't work in rural areas because there aren't enough private schools, and that all the money for choice scholarships will go to private schools in the cities.
54% : A decade ago, 390 students in my district used state-funded school choice scholarships or state-funded education savings accounts.
54% : But how did they find those options if supposedly there aren't any private schools in rural areas?
53% : "When you think of private schools coming into small towns, we're not these big bad people, corporate organizations trying to come in and take over the school system," the founder said in this video that accompanies the Step Up For Students report.
49% :There have always been private schools in rural areas, even if they tend to be fewer and smaller just like the public schools in rural areas.
46% : Since school choice got rolling in Florida, the number of private schools in rural counties has nearly doubled.
45% : In the past 10 years, the share of rural Florida students enrolled in private schools has risen 2.4 percentage points, to 6.9 percent.

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