{"id":20269,"date":"2013-10-07T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20269"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:14:11","slug":"fewer-support-staff-in-florida-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/07\/fewer-support-staff-in-florida-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Support Staff In Florida Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20271\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"There are fewer custodians and support staff in Florida public schools than there were in 2007. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/Kitsu-mops.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20271\" alt=\"There are fewer custodians and support staff in Florida public schools than there were in 2007. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/Kitsu-mops-300x206.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/Kitsu-mops-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/Kitsu-mops.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kitsu \/ flickr.com<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are fewer custodians and support staff in Florida public schools than there were in 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A StateImpact Florida analysis of jobs in Florida public schools shows that while full-time staffing is almost back to pre-recession levels, one group of employees hasn\u2019t come back: the support staff.<\/p>\n<p>Since the recession began, Florida\u2019s public school budgets have been hit with more than $2 billion dollars in cuts from state and federal funding, decreased property tax revenue and sequestration. StateImpact has been following the resulting layoffs and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/06\/schools-run-out-of-easy-budget-choices\/\">hard choices in schools across the state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/09\/12\/florida-had-second-largest-2013-education-funding-increase-study-says\/\">funding has since been restored<\/a>. Full-time instructor positions have inched back to pre-recession levels.<\/p>\n<p>But at the start of last school year there were still about 15,000 fewer full-time jobs in Florida public schools than there were in 2007. Almost all of those jobs \u2014 99.5% \u2014 are support staff positions. Custodians, secretaries, classroom aides\u2014there just aren\u2019t as many people filling those roles anymore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN: WHAT IT MEANS TO LOSE SUPPORT STAFF<\/strong><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20269-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/SchoolJobs_SD_web.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/SchoolJobs_SD_web.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/SchoolJobs_SD_web.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>You can see a breakdown of year-to-year full-time employment numbers in Florida public schools here:<\/p>\n<p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0AjIhSOd7HnTtdHJtYXlYODJVZXA5QUdsWnpZb3VnUWc&#8221; source=&#8221;&#8221; filter=0 paginate=1 sortable=1]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A StateImpact Florida analysis of jobs in Florida public schools shows that while full-time staffing is almost back to pre-recession levels, one group of employees hasn\u2019t come back: the support staff. Since the recession began, Florida\u2019s public school budgets have been hit with more than $2 billion dollars in cuts from state and federal funding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,874],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269"}],"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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20282,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions\/20282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}