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Hillside Academy Incorporated will be accepting the Step Up for Students and McKay Scholarships. You can begin the application process below or contact Ms. Edna Stephens at 561.992.3456 for assistance with the application.
Step Up for Students Scholarship
Step Up For Students was created to help alleviate the enormous educational challenges faced by lower socio-economic children in Florida. The program provides Tax Credit Scholarships to students in K-12 based on income. These scholarships allow the students to consider a private school or an out-of-district public school that may better suit their individual needs. This choice is not based on whether the public school is judged as succeeding or failing. Rather, it recognizes that different children learn in different ways and that our collective struggle is to help the students who often are at the greatest disadvantage in modern education.
Family Empowerment Scholarship
The Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) Program is one of Florida’s greatest victories for low-income and working-class families, and it is the first of its kind to extend support to middle-income families. Following the 2019 Legislative Session, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 7070, which creates the FES Program and provides 18,000 students life-changing education opportunities for academic and career success.
The FES Program will provide an educational lifeline to students waiting for an opportunity to find the school that will best work for them and puts more parents in the driver’s seat to determine the best educational environments for their children.