Support Florida Students as a New Worlds Provider

The New Worlds Scholarship empowers VPK and K-5 public school students struggling with reading and math by providing essential resources and interventions. As an approved part-time tutor or provider of fee-based after-school or summer programs, your business can play a pivotal role in this initiative. By partnering with us, you’ll receive direct payment from Step Up for your services to eligible scholarship students.

For the 2024-2025 school year, this program will offer families Education Savings Accounts, valued at $1200 each, to cover tuition and fees for part-time tutoring in reading and math, as well as summer and after-school programs aimed at skill improvement. Funding can also be used for instructional materials, including some technology products, and curriculum related to reading and math.

Why Partner with Us?

• Enhance Your Reputation: Position your business as a leader in community support and educational development.
• Expand Your Reach: Gain exposure to a motivated and diverse group of students and their families.
• Secure Direct Payments: Benefit from a reliable payment system through Step Up, ensuring timely compensation for your services.
• Make a Difference: Contribute to the academic success of young students and help shape a brighter future.

Join us in this rewarding partnership and make a lasting impact on your community while growing your business. Together, we can help students achieve their full potential.

To provide direct-pay services to scholarship families, you must create an account in ‘EMA,’ your Education Marketing Assistant. This direct-pay option alleviates the burden of paying out-of-pocket for scholarship families by allowing them to pay for your services directly out of their student’s Education Savings Account. Through EMA, you will submit documentation to become an approved provider. Once approved, EMA will help you manage how scholarship families find your business and pay for your services.

When creating your EMA account, you will need to provide documentation to verify your eligibility. Please review the Provider Checklist to identify the documents needed for setting up your account. School and Provider Handbooks may be found by clicking here.

1. Verify you are eligible for providing part-time tutoring services.
   
   1. Part-time tutoring services must be focused on Reading and/or Math
   2. Verify you have state-approved credentials. More information can be found in the New Worlds Provider Handbook.
2. Create an EMA account
   How to create a business account >
   How to create a personal account >
   
   1. Add your tutoring services to the EMA Marketplace
   2. Add Credentialed Providers to your business
      How to link a business and personal account >

If you provide fee-based after-school or summer reading and/or math programs, you can work with Step Up For Students to receive payment for eligible students directly from Step Up For Students.

1. 1. Verify you are eligible to provide part-time tutoring services.
      1. After-school and summer programs must be focused on Reading and/or Math.
   2. Create an EMA account
      How to Create a business account >
      1. Add your program services to the EMA Marketplace.

New Worlds Scholarship families will not be able to submit reimbursement requests, per House Bill 1361. This means families will no longer be able to purchase goods or services out of pocket. Instead, New Worlds families will need to purchase from MyScholarShop or the EMA Provider Marketplace to use their scholarship funds directly. New Worlds families must submit requests for reimbursements of items or services purchased between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 with all necessary documents by Sept. 30, 2024.