{"id":16282,"date":"2013-01-24T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=16282"},"modified":"2013-01-24T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:53:12","slug":"a-billion-dollar-education-budget-wishlist-teacher-raises-and-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/24\/a-billion-dollar-education-budget-wishlist-teacher-raises-and-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"A Billion-Dollar Education Budget Wishlist: Teacher Raises And New Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4881\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 193px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/15\/house-panel-denies-more-money-for-charter-schools\/money-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4881\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4881\" title=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">borman818 \/ flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Between new technology needed for tougher state standards and Gov. Scott&#39;s proposed teacher raises, budget writers are looking at more than $1 billion in education budget requests.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott wants teachers to get a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/stateroundup\/article1271735.ece\"> $2,500 raise in next year&#8217;s state budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Scott&#8217;s proposal will cause some problems for state budget writers facing down other big-ticket education requests.<\/p>\n<p>Chief among them is the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/01\/florida-department-of-education-budget-request-would-upgrade-school-technology-digital-learning\/\">$441.8 million the state Department of Education has requested to upgrade school technology<\/a>. The upgrades are needed as part of the transition to new, tougher education standards approved by most states, known as Common Core.<\/p>\n<p>The new standards include a new, computerized standardized test, so schools need the network infrastructure and computers or tablets to handle the annual testing rush.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Education has also requested $309.5 million to cover the rising cost of current K-12 programs. The agency has asked for $100.5 million for state colleges.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the agency&#8217;s budget request is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/board\/meetings\/2012_10_09\/lbr.pdf\">additional $642.9 million over the current budget ending June 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers aren&#8217;t likely to give the department everything they&#8217;ve requested.<\/p>\n<p>But Scott&#8217;s teacher raises and the technology upgrades the department says is required for Common Core total more than $900 million alone.<\/p>\n<p>State economists estimate Florida&#8217;s budget surplus next could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/stateroundup\/article1271735.ece\">as much as $437 million<\/a>. The state could also have as much as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/k12\/scott-wants-2500-raises-for-full-time-public-school-teachers\/1271909\">$2.1 billion unspent from the current budget<\/a>, though some of that money could have to cover health care and other costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott wants teachers to get a $2,500 raise in next year&#8217;s state budget. But Scott&#8217;s proposal will cause some problems for state budget writers facing down other big-ticket education requests. Chief among them is the $441.8 million the state Department of Education has requested to upgrade school technology. The upgrades are needed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1157,1028,1027,1079,1050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282"}],"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=16282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16286,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions\/16286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}