{"id":18655,"date":"2013-05-21T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18655"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:02:06","slug":"floridas-education-budget-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/21\/floridas-education-budget-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida’s Education Budget By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Urban\/News Service of Florida<\/p>

Gov. Rick Scott announces the signing of the budget in Tallahassee and explains why tuition hikes and other items were vetoed.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gov. Rick Scott has signed a budget that’s very different than the one he’s been paying for since he authorized massive education cuts two years ago.<\/p>\n

Back then, pundits speculated Scott may have sealed his fate as a one term governor<\/a> when he proposed a few billion dollars worth of cuts to education. Scott, for his part, seemed surprised by the widespread backlash.<\/p>\n

Ultimately,\u00a0education lost about $1.3 billion in funding in 2011<\/a> \u2013 and cuts were necessary in many areas thanks to a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall.<\/p>\n

The governor has been trying to make up for it<\/a> since then.<\/p>\n

Scott was able to get close to a billion dollars put back into education last year and a little more than a billion was added to the budget he signed yesterday<\/a>. Scott calls it the Florida Families First budget.<\/p>\n

The total K-12 education budget for 2013-14 is $20.3 billion. Per student funding increased more than $400 to $6,779, and $480 million was set aside to boost salaries for teachers and administrators.<\/p>\n

Here are more numbers from the Governor’s Office: \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n