The Family Empowerment Scholarship Program is designed to offer families of students with disabilities, as young as 3 years of age, access to additional education options. Families may choose to enroll their student in another public school, or they may choose to take the opportunity to receive a personal education savings account (ESA) for their student. With an ESA, instead of having their child attend a public school, parents receive a deposit of public funds into government-authorized savings accounts with restricted, but multiple, uses. Families apply and annually renew for participation in FES UA through one of the approved SFOs, which are responsible for determining eligibility, awarding and distributing funding to eligible student accounts, and approving eligible expenditures. To learn more, click on FDOE Family Empowerment Scholarship below.
After Receiving Authorization for FES-UA
Families may complete the FES-UA Public Option Transfer Requests for the first semester of the 2025-2026 school year using any of the three link options below.
The FES-UA Public Option Transfer Request Survey is Available from June 2, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Link: https://dcps.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b79GjWxaix2fBc2
Scan the QR code below to access the FES-US Public Option Transfer Request Survey
