{"id":18527,"date":"2013-05-14T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18527"},"modified":"2013-05-14T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:16:05","slug":"florida-republican-party-ads-praise-gov-scotts-education-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/14\/florida-republican-party-ads-praise-gov-scotts-education-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Republican Party Ads Praise Gov. Scott&#8217;s Education Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8P4YlOl3_QY?list=UUKYbWPZcwhLkyF8I4oKhiag\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party of Florida has released two new Web videos to defend Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s record on education.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a compilation of news stories about <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/06\/governor-launches-victory-tour-to-celebrate-teacher-raises\/\">Scott&#8217;s statewide tour<\/a> celebrating his successful push to include teacher raises for the budget year beginning July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Scott asked lawmakers for $480 million in additional salary for teachers and other instructional personnel. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/04\/29\/lawmakers-and-gov-scott-compromise-on-teacher-raises\/\">Lawmakers agreed to the amount, though they did make some of the pay raise contingent on teacher evaluations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ad picks up on Scott&#8217;s slogan &#8212; and adds a social media touch &#8212; noting &#8220;#ItsWorking for Teachers&#8221; and &#8220;#ItsWorking for Students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ad also states next year&#8217;s state budget will add $1.2 billion for K-12 funding.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The second ad features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/legislature\/politifact-florida-florida-democratic-party-chair-misfires-on-scotts\/2120558\">PolitiFact Florida reporter debunking<\/a> the state Democratic Party chairwoman Allison Tant&#8217;s claim that Scott allowed the Legislature to cut his proposed teacher pay raises by 60 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The governor mostly got what he was asking for,&#8221; PoltiFact Florida reporter Angie Holan said. &#8220;After we asked, they said it wasn&#8217;t right and we rated this false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3YhbkrSpo2Q?list=UUKYbWPZcwhLkyF8I4oKhiag\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scott will face a difficult reelection bid next year.<\/p>\n<p>The governor has changed his policies toward education since taking office, when he asked lawmakers to cut K-12 budgets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/13\/inside-gov-scott%E2%80%99s-1-billion-education-plan\/\">Last year Scott asked lawmakers<\/a> to restore much of those cuts and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/03\/05\/gov-scott-is-asking-nicely-please-pay-teachers-more\/\">this year he asked for additional funding and the teacher raises.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Republican governor and potential Democratic candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/13\/crist-teachers-are-smart-and-cannot-be-bought\/\">Charlie Crist has already targeted Scott&#8217;s education record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintpetersblog.com\/gov-scott-uses-web-videos-to-boast-on-education-record-and-rebuff-fdp-attacks\">Hat tip to SaintPetersblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party of Florida has released two new Web videos to defend Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s record on education. The first is a compilation of news stories about Scott&#8217;s statewide tour celebrating his successful push to include teacher raises for the budget year beginning July 1. Scott asked lawmakers for $480 million in additional salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[823,822,826,1069,824,825,1027,1161],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527"}],"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=18527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}