{"id":1981,"date":"2011-10-07T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:06:41","slug":"florida-ranks-sixth-for-k-12-education-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/07\/florida-ranks-sixth-for-k-12-education-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Ranks Sixth for K-12 Education Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1982\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 181px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Florida has had the sixth-largest state education budget cuts since 2008.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/BudgetGraph.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982\" title=\"BudgetGraph\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/BudgetGraph-300x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/BudgetGraph-300x497.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/BudgetGraph-220x365.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/BudgetGraph.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida has had the sixth-largest state education budget cuts since 2008.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s education budget cuts were the sixth-largest in the nation since 2008, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/cms\/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=3569\">Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report<\/a> released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida spends 18.1 percent less per K-12 student in state money than when the recession began in 2008, once figures are adjusted for inflation, according to the report.That means Florida is spending $705 less per student this year than it was in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina registered the highest budget cuts at 24.1 percent per student, while North Dakota increased funding by 24.2 percent per student.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 37 states are spending less per student this year than last. 30 states are spending less per student than they did four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The report argues that the budget cuts have hindered states&#8217; ability to implement education reforms and extended the economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s education budget cuts were the sixth-largest in the nation since 2008, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report released Friday. Florida spends 18.1 percent less per K-12 student in state money than when the recession began in 2008, once figures are adjusted for inflation, according to the report.That means Florida is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1023,1041],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}