{"id":2308,"date":"2011-10-21T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2011-10-21T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:55:04","slug":"feedback-loop-charter-schools-higher-ed-salaries-and-college-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/21\/feedback-loop-charter-schools-higher-ed-salaries-and-college-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback Loop: Charter Schools, Higher Ed Salaries and College Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/charter-schools\/\">charter school<\/a> series, higher education salaries and a lawsuit over college tuition drove the comments this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/14\/school-boards-getting-tough-on-charter-applications\/#comments\">Disallusionedinmiami<\/a> agreed that school boards should <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/14\/school-boards-getting-tough-on-charter-applications\/\">get tough<\/a> on new charter school applications.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do not stop charter schools, but question and ask for the highest degree of accountability. Some charter schools are only there is make a profit and use taxpayer\u2019s money. Manny Alonso Pouch unfortunately is a member of that\u00a0group.<\/p>\n<p>Question, investigate, and demand more from charter schools. If they are well run with a good staff, what charter schools can do is inspiring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Gov. Rick Scott prominently <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/18\/gov-scott-posts-florida-higher-education-salary-database-online\/\">posted higher education salaries<\/a> on a website detailing state government spending. Some college professors worried Scott was making a political point at their expense, but reader <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/18\/gov-scott-posts-florida-higher-education-salary-database-online\/#comments\">Meee<\/a> didn&#8217;t see anything to worry about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just scanned the spreadsheet. I don\u2019t see any smoking gun there \u2014 seems as though the overpaid one is the alien that had this posted \u2014 Mr Scott himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/20\/the-florida-tuition-lawsuit\/#comments\">Manny Shargel<\/a> questioned why the state would charge <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/20\/the-florida-tuition-lawsuit\/\">students who are Florida residents<\/a> out-of-state tuition because their parents were undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0I thought that being born in the United states makes you a citizen of the United States. Having lived in Florida all your life makes you a resident of Florida, doesn\u2019t it? How mean spirited of our elected officials to make legal residents pay out of state tuition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep the comments coming. Let us know what stories you&#8217;d like to see or what questions you want answered.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reader reaction is an important part of building <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/\">StateImpact Florida<\/a>\u2019s education coverage. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida?s=feedback+loop\">Feedback Loop<\/a> will be a regular feature highlighting your questions, criticisms and comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our continuing charter school series, higher education salaries and a lawsuit over college tuition drove the comments this week. Disallusionedinmiami agreed that school boards should get tough on new charter school applications. Do not stop charter schools, but question and ask for the highest degree of accountability. Some charter schools are only there is make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1009,126,1027,1046],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}