[1] The large demand led Kirtley to help push for the creation of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, which was signed into law in 2001.

[5] As a "Scholarship Funding Organization" in Florida, Step Up must undergo audits and must be approved by the State Board of Education annually.

New eligible students must live in a household with an income that does not exceed 260 percent of the Federal poverty level.

[9] On January 18, 2017, the Supreme Court Justices of Florida voted 4-1 to decline jurisdiction over the lawsuit and the case was dismissed.

The scholarship program allows children with certain disabilities to have access to special accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, fees, textbooks, curriculum, tutoring, therapies, educational technologies and more.

Step Up raises funds through tax credits, worth up to $105, for persons purchasing new or used automobiles in Florida.

That scholarship offers parents $500 to be spent on tutoring, text books, summer school programs and more related to improving reading and literacy skills of their children.

Newly eligible students must have attended a public school in the prior year and live in a household with an income that does not exceed 300 percent of the Federal poverty level ($77,250 for a family of four in 2019-20).