HAS ITS MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIP ENCOURAGED FLORIDAS BRIGHTEST HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO REMAIN IN STATE?
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship (FBF) is a merit-based scholarship that rewards Florida high school students for their academic achievements. One concern among educators in Florida’s is its ability to keep top high school students in state for their post-secondary education and thereby to maintain the quality of its universities. If FBF has been a factor that students weigh when choosing their institution of higher education, it is expected that in-state attendance should have increased in Florida following the creation of the scholarship in 1997. Residency data obtained from the Florida Department of Education for first-time-in-college (FTIC) students admitted to the regular fall terms of Florida universities show an upward trend in resident attendance (Figure 1). The rate at which the in-state attendance was increasing nearly doubled after 1997. It is important to recognize that the overall increase has been small, though the change in growth rate following 1997 is noteworthy.
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