{"id":15357,"date":"2012-12-04T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15357"},"modified":"2012-12-04T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T17:11:50","slug":"florida-house-education-panel-gets-a-language-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/04\/florida-house-education-panel-gets-a-language-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida House Education Panel Gets A Language Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15358\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 299px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/04\/florida-house-education-panel-gets-a-language-lesson\/textbooks-by-textbookace\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15358\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15358\" title=\"textbooks by textbookace\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/12\/textbooks-by-textbookace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">textbookace\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Florida House are learning terms they&#39;ll be using frequently as they help craft the education budget.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new members of a House education budget panel got a lesson today in how to do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s information the Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/sections\/committees\/committeesdetail.aspx?SessionId=73&amp;CommitteeId=2700\">House Education Appropriations Subcommittee<\/a> will need before starting the work of crafting a massive education budget for 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/UserContent\/Session\/2012\/Publications\/EducationFundingSummary2012-13.pdf\">The state\u2019s education budget this year is $20.3-billion<\/a>. That\u2019s 29 percent of Florida\u2019s $70-billion budget for 2012-13.<\/p>\n<p>Subcommittee Budget Chief Allyce Heflin tried to prepare members for the work ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis subcommittee will receive an allocation,\u201d Heflin said. \u201cThat is a pot of money within which you have to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained terms like base budget, conforming bills, and legislative budget requests.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some other terms she defined<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Appropriation<\/em> = It\u2019s not cash; it\u2019s budget authority. The Legislature provides budget authority to spend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Program<\/em> = This is a set of services or activities approved in a budgetary line item.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Budget entity<\/em> = The lowest unit of function where funds are specifically appropriated.<\/p>\n<p>Florida increased education funding this year by $273 per student.<\/p>\n<p>Even after adding more than a $1 billion in funding to the K-12 system, Florida still spends <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/06\/florida-2012-education-funding-increase-fifth-largest-in-nation\/\">$296 less per student \u2014 adjusted for inflation \u2014 than before the recession began<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new members of a House education budget panel got a lesson today in how to do their jobs. It\u2019s information the Florida House Education Appropriations Subcommittee will need before starting the work of crafting a massive education budget for 2013-14. The state\u2019s education budget this year is $20.3-billion. That\u2019s 29 percent of Florida\u2019s $70-billion [&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":[1036,1028],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357"}],"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=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15365,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}