Florida's education-savings scholarships can fund a complete curriculum for your child at home. Here's how they work, who runs them, and where Lyceum Mundi fits.
Florida now offers education savings account (ESA) scholarships that put a set annual amount into a family's account to spend on approved education expenses — including curriculum and instructional materials. If your child qualifies, that award can cover much or all of a Lyceum Mundi enrollment, so you pay little or nothing out of pocket.
| Scholarship | Who it's for & how it's used |
|---|---|
| PEP — Personalized Education Program | An ESA for students not enrolled full-time in a school — the closest fit for a home-style education. The award (recently around $8,000/yr, set by the state) is spent on approved curriculum, materials, and services through a marketplace. |
| FES-UA — Family Empowerment Scholarship, Unique Abilities | An ESA for students with qualifying disabilities. Same marketplace model, with broad flexibility for therapies, curriculum, and instructional materials tailored to the student. |
| FES-EO — Family Empowerment Scholarship, Educational Options | Primarily a private-school voucher for eligible families. Worth knowing, but PEP and FES-UA are the routes that fund a home-based curriculum. |
| FTC — Florida Tax Credit | An income-based scholarship that, like FES-EO, is principally for private-school tuition. |
For a Lyceum Mundi education at home, the two programs that matter most are PEP and FES-UA — the ESA scholarships that fund curriculum and instructional materials.
Florida funds these through two approved Scholarship Funding Organizations: Step Up For Students and AAA Scholarship Foundation. You apply to one of them — not to a school. Approval places the award in your account.
ESA funds are spent on approved expenses. The cleanest path for curriculum is Step Up's MyScholarShop marketplace — you buy approved instructional materials directly, and the funds are drawn from your award.
One distinction worth understanding. Buying curriculum and instructional materials (the marketplace path) is simpler than paying for a named human service-provider (the direct-pay/tutoring path, which requires a credentialed individual on file). Lyceum Mundi is a self-directed curriculum a family uses — so it fits the materials path, which is the easier door for most families.
Lyceum Mundi is onboarding to Step Up's MyScholarShop as approved curriculum and instructional materials for grades 6–12, so PEP and FES-UA families can put their award toward a complete classical education with an AI tutor for every subject. If you're scholarship-funded and want to enroll, email admissions@lyceummundi.org and we'll walk you through using your account.
Note: PEP and the other scholarship students are private-education students, not §1002.41 home-education students — so the home-education annual evaluation and Notice of Intent don't apply to a scholarship-funded seat. Each program has its own rules, set by the state and the SFOs.
This page is educational information, not legal or financial advice. Florida's scholarship programs, award amounts, eligibility, and approved-expense rules are set by the State of Florida and the Scholarship Funding Organizations and change periodically; confirm current details with Step Up For Students or AAA Scholarship Foundation. Eligibility and approval are theirs to determine.
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