{"id":325,"date":"2011-08-01T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-08-01T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:56:30","slug":"broward-county-cutting-teachers-while-other-districts-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/01\/broward-county-cutting-teachers-while-other-districts-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward County Cutting Teachers While Other Districts Do Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_329\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-329\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/01\/broward-county-cutting-teachers-while-other-districts-do-not\/activists-rally-in-support-of-labor-unions-rights\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329\" title=\"Activists Rally In Support Of Labor Unions' Rights\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109750108-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109750108-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109750108-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109750108.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Raedle \/ Getty News Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miami teachers protest state budget cuts in March<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why are Broward County schools cutting 2,400 jobs &#8212; mostly teachers &#8212;\u00a0 and requiring unpaid leave when other district proposed budgets avoid layoffs? The <em>South Florida Sun-Sentinel<\/em> has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/fl-broward-schools-budget-20110730,0,270193.story\">Q&amp;A<\/a> about Broward&#8217;s budget problems. One answer: Broward could not sit on federal stimulus money like Miami-Dade or Palm Beach counties.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Both those counties set aside at least half of last year&#8217;s unexpected  infusion of federal stimulus money to prop up budgets this year. Broward  used most of its $54 million pot last year to hire teachers in an  effort to comply with the state&#8217;s class-size law. The rest was folded  into this year&#8217;s proposed budget to help cover a $171 million shortfall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Broward County schools cutting 2,400 jobs &#8212; mostly teachers &#8212;\u00a0 and requiring unpaid leave when other district proposed budgets avoid layoffs? The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has posted a Q&amp;A about Broward&#8217;s budget problems. One answer: Broward could not sit on federal stimulus money like Miami-Dade or Palm Beach counties. &#8220;Both those counties set [&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":[1036,1028,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}