{"id":1591,"date":"2011-09-21T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2011-09-21T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:17:56","slug":"did-florida-schools-spend-stimulus-money-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/21\/did-florida-schools-spend-stimulus-money-wisely\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Florida Schools Spend Stimulus Money Wisely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1592\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Florida schools spent money intended for low-income student programs on teachers and other operating costs.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/educationsplash.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1592\" title=\"educationsplash\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/educationsplash-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/educationsplash-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/educationsplash-220x141.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/educationsplash.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Cristobal Ceron \/ FCIR<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida schools spent money intended for low-income student programs on teachers and other operating costs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s largest school districts spent just half the federal stimulus money intended to improve low-income student performance on those programs, according to an investigation by the <a href=\"http:\/\/fcir.org\/2011\/09\/21\/school-of-hard-financial-knocks\/\">Florida Center for Investigative Reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, districts spent more than $200 million of the $400 million of the money &#8212; known as Title I &#8212; on employee salaries and other operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that money intended for summer school or teacher training was never spent on those programs.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more-->FCIR also found that seven of every nine Florida school districts received federal exemptions from rules regulating how the stimulus money could be spent.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this story? Did Florida districts have any other choice? Did the federal government send a mixed message about how the money should be used?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s largest school districts spent just half the federal stimulus money intended to improve low-income student performance on those programs, according to an investigation by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Instead, districts spent more than $200 million of the $400 million of the money &#8212; known as Title I &#8212; on employee salaries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1044,1057,1036,1043,136,135,1058],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}