TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – After a change made during this year’s legislative session, a Florida school voucher program has expanded to nearly 34,000 students, a state official said this week. The Family Empowerment Scholarship Program was created in 2019, with a cap of about 18,000 students for the 2019-2020 school year. The program, which is funded directly from the state education budget, is designed to help lower-income and working-class families send children to private schools. It is part of more than two decades of efforts by state Republican leaders to expand school choice. The Board of Education, which met Wednesday in St. Petersburg, approved a rule spelling out details of the program.