{"id":3431,"date":"2011-12-06T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2011-12-06T14:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T19:24:27","slug":"florida-charter-group-has-short-legislative-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/12\/06\/florida-charter-group-has-short-legislative-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Charter Group Has Short Legislative Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3432\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Republiocan Rep. Janet Adkins has introduced a bill intended to equalize funding for charter and district school students.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/12\/JanetAdkins.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3432\" title=\"JanetAdkins\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/12\/JanetAdkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Florida House of Representatives<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Rep. Janet Adkins has introduced a bill intended to equalize funding for charter and district school students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new charter school advocacy group has just one item on their Legislative agenda come January &#8212; Equal funding for charter schools students.<\/p>\n<p>The group, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flcharteralliance.org\/\">Florida Charter School Alliance<\/a>, said a <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.bsu.edu\/Academics\/CollegesandDepartments\/Teachers\/Schools\/Charter\/CharterFunding.aspx\">2010 Ball State University survey<\/a> showed Florida charter schools receive $2,749 less, on average, per student than district schools.<\/p>\n<p>That 25.1 percent gap put Florida among states with a &#8220;severe&#8221; difference in funding charter and district schools Most of that Most of the difference comes from the roughly $2,000 additional dollars district schools receive in local tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>So the group is getting behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=48128&amp;SessionIndex=-1&amp;SessionId=70&amp;BillText=&amp;BillNumber=903&amp;BillSponsorIndex=0&amp;BillListIndex=0&amp;BillStatuteText=&amp;BillTypeIndex=0&amp;BillReferredIndex=0&amp;HouseChamber=H&amp;BillSearchIndex=0\">HB 903<\/a>, sponsored by Fernandina Beach Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/sections\/Representatives\/details.aspx?MemberId=4439&amp;SessionId=70\">Rep. Janet Adkins<\/a>. Adkins sits on a number of education committees, and is vice-chairman of the PreK-12 Appropriations subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bill would ensure that all state money, capital funds and local taxes were doled out on a per capita basis for both district and charter students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that every student in Florida deserves access to a high-quality school, regardless of race, income level or geographic location,\u201d said group president Cheri Shannon in a press release. &#8220;Charter public schools educate 10 percent of Florida\u2019s students, and as that number continues to grow, we must alleviate the funding inequity that currently exists.\u00a0 I am confident that lawmakers are equally committed to fostering equity for all public schools students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Charter School Alliance formed earlier this year. An existing group, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridacharterschools.org\/\">Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools<\/a>, also advocates for the publicly funded, but privately run schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new charter school advocacy group has just one item on their Legislative agenda come January &#8212; Equal funding for charter schools students. The group, the Florida Charter School Alliance, said a 2010 Ball State University survey showed Florida charter schools receive $2,749 less, on average, per student than district schools. That 25.1 percent gap [&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":[1036,1009,1028],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431"}],"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=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}