IF COURT STRIKES DOWN PRIVATE SCHOOL TAX CREDIT PROGRAM, PUBLIC SCHOOL CROWDING COULD FOLLOW via Jeffrey Solochek of the Tampa Bay Times

"If a judge were to rule tomorrow that we need to abolish these scholarships, you'd be hard-pressed to figure out where to put them," said Jon East, vice president of policy for Step Up For Students, the state's biggest scholarship administrator.

Almost 80,000 students — more than a quarter of whom live in Miami-Dade County — use the scholarships this year. That number is expected to surpass 90,000 next fall.

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