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Ron DeSantis: “When I became governor, we had about 100,000 kids on…”

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Governor DeSantis Makes Major Announcement on School Choice

Published | Video Starts at 06:56

So that's been a huge, huge thing. But then of course, we have our private scholarships that have really changed the game. So When I became governor, we had about 100,000 kids on scholarship and it was effectively capped because it was related to corporate tax credit scholarships. You had a Supreme Court decision that had happened, I think, in like the late 90s, sometime in maybe early 2000s, which said you couldn't have school choice effectively where parents control. (06:56–07:07)

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Asserts that Florida had about 100,000 scholarship students when DeSantis became governor, capped by corporate tax credit scholarships.

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