ST. LUCIE COUNTY — St. Lucie Public Schools is pursuing new ways to generate revenue as state education funding shifts, including expanding services for homeschool families, leasing district facilities and developing adult workforce training programs.
Speaking during a district workshop, Superintendent John R. Prince said Florida’s education funding landscape has changed significantly as more state dollars are directed toward scholarship programs for students outside the traditional public school system.
“As funding sources have changed, Florida Empowerment Scholarships right now, the state is funding about four and a half to five billion dollars of students that they’ve never funded before — homeschool students, private school students — and none of these students that are taking advantage of these scholarships have any accountability,” Prince said…