{"id":18549,"date":"2013-05-15T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18549"},"modified":"2013-05-15T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:39:14","slug":"gov-scott-coy-about-vetoing-a-tuition-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/15\/gov-scott-coy-about-vetoing-a-tuition-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Scott Coy About Vetoing A Tuition Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18550\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 242px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/15\/gov-scott-coy-about-vetoing-a-tuition-increase\/scott1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18550\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18550\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/Scott1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Florida Governor&#39;s Office<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Rick Scott has a little over a week left to veto a tuition increase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott hasn&#8217;t given any indication that he&#8217;s ready to sign the $74.5 billion budget the Florida Legislature sent him early this month.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s expected to veto some line items, including <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/13\/education-and-the-2013-florida-legislative-session\/\">a 3 percent tuition hike<\/a>\u00a0for universities and\u00a0a similar increase for state colleges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m reviewing the budget, and I haven&#8217;t decided when to finish that,&#8221; Scott told reporters in Miami yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>While Scott hasn&#8217;t said he&#8217;ll nix the tuition increase, he has repeatedly said he is against it.<\/p>\n<p>He alluded to that when asked yesterday about <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/14\/salaries-of-florida-college-presidents-under-scrutiny\/\">his inspector general&#8217;s report on college president salaries.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all of us want to make sure every child has the opportunity for a great education; we keep the cost of getting a higher education as low as possible so they don&#8217;t have to incur debt,\u201d Scott said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure all the trustees of the state colleges and universities are going to want to make sure money is not wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The budget also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/06\/governor-launches-victory-tour-to-celebrate-teacher-raises\/\">Scott&#8217;s much sought after pay raises for teachers<\/a>. Most will receive between $2000 and $3500 depending on their evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>Scott will be in Santiago, Chile next week on a trade mission. He is scheduled to return to Tallahassee on May 24th. That&#8217;s the deadline for him to sign the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott hasn&#8217;t given any indication that he&#8217;s ready to sign the $74.5 billion budget the Florida Legislature sent him early this month. He&#8217;s expected to veto some line items, including a 3 percent tuition hike\u00a0for universities and\u00a0a similar increase for state colleges. &#8220;I&#8217;m reviewing the budget, and I haven&#8217;t decided when to finish [&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":[785,1104,1027,1079],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549"}],"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=18549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}