{"id":14486,"date":"2012-10-26T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2012-10-26T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:05:28","slug":"debit-cards-could-help-florida-teachers-purchase-school-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/26\/debit-cards-could-help-florida-teachers-purchase-school-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Debit Cards Could Help Florida Teachers Purchase School Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14487\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 217px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/26\/debit-cards-could-help-florida-teachers-purchase-school-supplies\/debit\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14487\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14487\" title=\"debit\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/debit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">MoneyBlogNewz\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida teachers may soon have debit cards to cover their classroom supplies.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The governor who cut $1.3-billion in education funding during his first year in office &#8211; then put a billion back during the second year &#8211; now wants to give every teacher in Florida a debit card.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one element of Governor Rick Scott\u2019s new education plan.<\/p>\n<p>The debit cards would enable teachers to stop spending so much of their own money on supplies for students. Scott is calling it the Teacher Supply Program.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would be &#8220;supported by state, district and hopefully private sector jobs to purchase supplies for their classroom without spending personal money like they do today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A survey conducted by the National School Supply and Equipment Association found that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=95922&amp;page=1#.UIqQO4ZU2So\">teachers cover 77 percent<\/a> of their classroom supplies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The trade group\u2019s survey found that teachers \u2013 with support from parents and the PTA &#8211; spent <a href=\"http:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/08\/teachers-spend-1.3-billion-out-of-pocket-on-classroom-materials.aspx\">$3.5 billion on classroom supplies<\/a> and instructional materials in the 2009-2010 school year.<\/p>\n<p>That breaks down to more than <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/08\/24\/news\/economy\/public_school_teachers_budgets\/index.htm\">$350 per teacher<\/a> on average.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Scott\u2019s debit card proposal needs to be approved by Florida lawmakers during the legislative session starting in March.<\/p>\n<p>Scott hopes business leaders are willing to invest in it.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers, how much do you spend on classroom supplies? What do you buy?<\/p>\n<p>Parents, are schools asking you to contribute supplies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor who cut $1.3-billion in education funding during his first year in office &#8211; then put a billion back during the second year &#8211; now wants to give every teacher in Florida a debit card. That\u2019s one element of Governor Rick Scott\u2019s new education plan. The debit cards would enable teachers to stop spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1027,1072],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14494,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/14494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}