Florida Homeschool Resource
Florida PEP and scholarship hub
Registered home education, PEP, FES-UA, and private-school scholarships are not interchangeable. Start with the student’s current enrollment path, then verify current eligibility, deadlines, annual responsibilities, and purchasing rules with the organization that administers the program.
The parent registers with the district under Florida’s home-education law, keeps a portfolio, and submits an annual evaluation. PEP registration and its education savings account are separate.
Compare home education and PEP →PEP is an FTC scholarship option administered through a scholarship-funding organization. It requires an annual Student Learning Plan, approved assessment, compliance agreement, and renewal records.
Build the PEP file →The Unique Abilities scholarship has its own eligibility, documentation, purchasing, provider, and education-choice rules. A diagnosis or service need does not by itself confirm an expense is approved.
Open the learning-support hub →FTC and FES-EO generally support eligible private-school enrollment. Confirm the participating school, current award, family obligations, and any remaining tuition or fees before committing.
Open FLDOE scholarship information →Checked October 2, 2026
Step Up reports 2026–27 PEP applications closed after the April 30, 2026 deadline and offers updates for 2027–28. FES-UA timing and capacity can differ. Application windows, funding, rules, handbooks, and provider status can change, so use the live official source before acting.
Step Up For Students
Check the live PEP journey for application status, age and residency criteria, current scholarship amounts, Family Handbook, eligible-expense categories, and the next application cycle.
Open the official PEP page →Florida Department of Education
Use the state FAQ for the Student Learning Plan, annual assessment, SFO registration, termination of district home education when applicable, parent responsibilities, and allowable-use categories.
Read the FLDOE PEP FAQ →Step Up For Students
Review the current Family Handbook, Purchasing Guide, scholarship amounts, application checklist, reimbursement instructions, EMA help, and program-specific documentation.
Open FES-UA resources →Florida Department of Education
Use the state hub to identify the correct program, official FAQs, approved scholarship-funding organizations, participating-school information, statutes, and current notices.
Open Florida School Choice →Florida Department of Education
Private virtual schools and approved Virtual Instruction Program or course providers are not the same. Confirm the exact provider category and current approval before using scholarship funds.
Check approved virtual resources →Florida Legislature
Section 1002.01 defines a home education program and a personalized education program separately. Use the current statute when a form, provider, or summary uses the terms loosely.
Read section 1002.01 →The annual PEP file
A clean file makes deadlines, renewals, questions, purchases, reimbursements, and appeals easier to manage. Keep the live handbook beside the records instead of treating last year’s approval as a permanent rule.
Save the submitted plan, submission date, confirmation, goals, planned curriculum and services, and every later revision required by the scholarship-funding organization.
Keep the approved test or statewide-assessment choice, registration and administration details, accommodations, results, delivery confirmation, and the renewal deadline.
Preserve the annual parent agreement, sworn compliance statement, program notices, renewal application, eligibility requests, and every response submitted.
Track the award notice, funding deposits, available balance, committed expenses, payments, reimbursements, refunds, reversals, and unresolved transactions without estimating from memory.
For every item or service, keep the current rule relied on, educational purpose, approval or marketplace record, invoice, proof of payment, delivery, attendance or service notes, and refund documents.
Save support tickets, preauthorization requests, written answers, denials, additional-document requests, appeal steps, names, dates, deadlines, and final outcomes in one decision log.
Before paying or requesting reimbursement
A product in a marketplace, a provider’s scholarship claim, or a previously approved purchase is not a guarantee that this student, program, date, vendor, documentation, and expense will qualify now.
Important: This page is educational information, not legal, tax, financial, eligibility, reimbursement, or scholarship advice. Florida Homeschool Resource is not a scholarship-funding organization and does not determine eligibility or approve purchases. ClassWallet is not presented as an active checkout method on this site. Verify the student’s current program, application status, handbook, purchasing rule, provider, required documents, payment route, and deadlines directly with FLDOE and the responsible scholarship-funding organization before changing enrollment or spending money.
