Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000
per disabled
student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types,
taxpayers are actually saving quite a bit of
money with special education vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»
In addition to increasing
per - pupil funding, Huberty's bill provides schools with weighted funding for
students with dyslexia, and reduces the amount of
money that local
taxpayers in wealthier areas would pay in Recapture by $ 163 million in 2018 and $ 192 million in 2019.