{"id":18675,"date":"2013-05-22T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18675"},"modified":"2013-05-22T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:10:48","slug":"report-florida-among-the-cheapest-states-in-spending-per-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/22\/report-florida-among-the-cheapest-states-in-spending-per-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Florida Among The Cheapest States In Spending Per Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18676\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 291px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/22\/report-florida-among-the-cheapest-states-in-spending-per-student\/educationmoney\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18676\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18676\" title=\"educationmoney\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/educationmoney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">forwardstl\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida is among the states that spend the least on students, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida spent $8,887 on each public school student in 2011, making it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/05\/22\/3410044\/fla-ranked-42nd-in-nation-in-per.html\" target=\"_blank\">one of the lowest states in the nation for per-pupil spending.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">The totals from\u00a0the U.S. Census Bureau &#8211; including federal revenue &#8211; were compiled before\u00a0Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature cut about <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/06\/schools-run-out-of-easy-budget-choices\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 billion from education funding.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, the state has put about $2 billion back into education, so Florida students may be faring a little better these days.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Florida&#8217;s share of per-student spending is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/21\/floridas-education-budget-by-the-numbers\/#more-18655\" target=\"_blank\">going up by more than $400<\/a> in\u00a0the budget year starting in July.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.census.gov\/govs\/school\/11f33pub.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Public Education Finances: 2011<\/a>\u00a0report are from data collected through the end of June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Florida ranked number 42 in student spending. The national average at that time was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/05\/22\/3410044\/fla-ranked-42nd-in-nation-in-per.html#storylink=cpy\"> $10,560 per student.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report includes details about spending on instruction, student transportation, salaries and employee benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida spent $8,887 on each public school student in 2011, making it one of the lowest states in the nation for per-pupil spending. The totals from\u00a0the U.S. Census Bureau &#8211; including federal revenue &#8211; were compiled before\u00a0Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature cut about $1.3 billion from education funding. Since then, the state has [&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":[278,1028,197],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675"}],"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=18675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18680,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675\/revisions\/18680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}