{"id":20716,"date":"2013-11-19T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20716"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:00:52","slug":"crist-says-education-economy-two-most-important-issues-in-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/11\/19\/crist-says-education-economy-two-most-important-issues-in-governor-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Crist Says Education And Economy Most Important Issues In Governor Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_ed_1fla_131118\" height=\"500\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Education and the economy will be the most important issues in Florida&#8217;s governor race.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Democratic candidate &#8212; and former Republican governor &#8212; Charlie Crist told MSNBC&#8217;s Ed Schultz on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Crist, Democratic former state Sen. Nan Rich and Republican Gov. Rick Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/11\/18\/school-funding-teacher-evaluations-key-issues-early-in-governors-race\/\">have all talked about education early in the race to try and distinguish themselves from each other<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crist continues to criticize Scott for cutting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/florida\/statements\/2013\/nov\/11\/charlie-crist\/charlie-crist-says-rick-scott-cut-k-12-13-billion-\/\">K-12 budget in 2011<\/a> and other policies such as requiring teachers are evaluated mostly based on student test scores. (Scott argues the cuts were necessary to close a budget shortfall Crist left behind. Scott has <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/09\/12\/florida-had-second-largest-2013-education-funding-increase-study-says\/\">pushed for more K-12 funding the last two years<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think education and the economy,&#8221; Crist said when asked about the most important issues in the race. &#8220;I think they go hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you talk about getting good, high-paying jobs for people if you don&#8217;t have a solid education system, that you support properly, and that you back up and you don&#8217;t demoralize public school teachers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigeddieradio.com\/blog\/default.asp?NID=2443\">Watch the whole interview here<\/a> (it starts at 2:50 and the comments on education are at 12:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education and the economy will be the most important issues in Florida&#8217;s governor race. That&#8217;s what Democratic candidate &#8212; and former Republican governor &#8212; Charlie Crist told MSNBC&#8217;s Ed Schultz on Monday. Crist, Democratic former state Sen. Nan Rich and Republican Gov. Rick Scott have all talked about education early in the race to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":20685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[849,1036,822,864,1027,1119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716"}],"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=20716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}