{"id":21280,"date":"2014-01-28T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2014-01-29T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:07:06","slug":"scott-lawmakers-making-school-technology-a-budget-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/28\/scott-lawmakers-making-school-technology-a-budget-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott, Lawmakers Making School Technology A Budget Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21281\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Both Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers want to spend more money on school technology. The question is the best way to do so.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-28-Laptop.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21281\" alt=\"Both Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers want to spend more money on school technology. The question is the best way to do so.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-28-Laptop-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-28-Laptop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-28-Laptop-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-28-Laptop.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">utnapistim \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers want to spend more money on school technology. The question is the best way to do so.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The chairman of the Senate&#8217;s Education Committee said Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers want to spend at least $40 million, and likely more, to upgrade school Internet capacity and add new computers, tablets and other digital tools.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Legg, R-Port Richey, said education technology is a priority for Scott and both Republican and Democratic legislative leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Legg said $40 million in Scott&#8217;s proposed budget &#8212; to be released in full tomorrow &#8212; is a starting point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that was a placeholder,&#8221; Legg said, &#8220;an indication of a willingness to fund, this year, technology. I think we need to do better. I think we need to do a little bit more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have required<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/technology\/\"> half of classroom instruction is delivered digitally when classes begin in fall 2015<\/a>. That deadline has been overshadowed by the state&#8217;s switch to new math and language arts standards and a new test next school year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers generally agree the state needs to spend more money on school technology, Legg said. The question is figuring out what technology is the most effective for students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There hasn\u2019t been a discussion,&#8221; Legg said. &#8220;All of us have been for technology, but there hasn\u2019t been a real discussion of what does that look like? And how do we provide that opportunity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Legg said Scott is willing to support more money for technology, but only if lawmakers show him a plan that makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Senate&#8217;s Education Committee said Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers want to spend at least $40 million, and likely more, to upgrade school Internet capacity and add new computers, tablets and other digital tools. Sen. John Legg, R-Port Richey, said education technology is a priority for Scott and both Republican and Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[865,1036,680,807,1027,1050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280"}],"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=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21284,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/21284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}