{"id":18628,"date":"2013-05-20T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18628"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:43:00","slug":"governor-vetoes-university-tuition-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/20\/governor-vetoes-university-tuition-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Vetoes University Tuition Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18629\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 282px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/20\/governor-vetoes-university-tuition-increase\/grads\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18629\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18629\" title=\"grads\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/grads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">wmliu\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Rick Scott used his line item veto power to cancel the Florida Legislature&#39;s 3 percent tuition hike.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott signed the 2013-14 state budget into law today. He also sent a letter to Secretary of State Ken Detzner explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flgov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Message1.pdf\">his decision to veto a tuition hike.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also holding the line on tuition by vetoing the Legislature\u2019s recommended 3 percent tuition increase on our college and university students,\u201d the governor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is incumbent upon state leaders to ensure the cost of higher education remains accessible to as many Floridians as possible,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida should be proud that we have one of the most affordable high-quality college and university systems in the country,&#8221; Scott wrote, &#8220;now also offering $10,000 baccalaureate degree programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott said the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/15\/gov-scott-coy-about-vetoing-a-tuition-increase\/\">state should be proud to keep tuition low<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that investing in economic development and our K-12 education system is working to create more jobs and opportunity in our state,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>The veto was expected, since Scott has been clear about not supporting any increase in tuition. Plus, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/05\/why-florida-universities-wont-ask-for-tuition-hikes-this-year\/\">university presidents had already pledged not to ask for a tuition hike.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ed Moore, president of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, said Scott seems to be looking at tuition as a tax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is of the mindset that he wants to hold costs down,\u201d Moore said, \u201cbut someone&#8217;s paying for it. Whether the consumer is going to pay for it directly or it&#8217;s going to be in higher state payments to those universities&#8230;you don&#8217;t buy quality on the cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose costs have to be met somehow,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>The state budget includes $20.3 billion in total funding for K-12 education. The Governor&#8217;s Office says that&#8217;s a $1.08 billion increase over the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Margie Menzel with News Service of Florida contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott signed the 2013-14 state budget into law today. He also sent a letter to Secretary of State Ken Detzner explaining his decision to veto a tuition hike. \u201cWe are also holding the line on tuition by vetoing the Legislature\u2019s recommended 3 percent tuition increase on our college and university students,\u201d the governor [&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":[1028,197,1046],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628"}],"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=18628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18636,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628\/revisions\/18636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}