The lawsuit challenging the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program was dismissed yesterday when the Florida Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. The court’s 4-1 decision leaves in place an August ruling by the First District Court of Appeal, which found the statewide teachers’ union and other groups behind McCall v. Scott did not have standing for the case. 

Trial and appellate courts both dismissed the tax credit scholarship case after concluding that the Florida Education Association, Florida School Boards Association, Florida Congress of Parents and Teachers, League of Women Voters of Florida, Florida State Conference of Branches of NAACP and Americans United for Separation of Church and State could not provide evidence that the program harms public schools. The Florida Legislature created the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program in 2001, and the law provides for state tax credits for contributions to nonprofit scholarship funding organizations. The program currently awards scholarships to nearly 98,000 eligible children of low-income families in more than 1,600 private schools.

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