{"id":4115,"date":"2012-01-11T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2012-01-11T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:04:44","slug":"a-billion-dollars-doesnt-go-as-far-as-it-used-to-for-florida-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/11\/a-billion-dollars-doesnt-go-as-far-as-it-used-to-for-florida-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Why $1 Billion Doesn&#8217;t Go As Far As It Used To For Florida Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2532\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"More students and less tax money means Gov. Rick Scott's proposed $1 billion for school won't go quite as far replacing budget cuts.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/MoneyRoll.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2532\" title=\"MoneyRoll\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/MoneyRoll-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/MoneyRoll-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/MoneyRoll-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/MoneyRoll-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/MoneyRoll.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr \/ Images_of_Money<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More students and less tax money means Gov. Rick Scott&#39;s proposed $1 billion for school won&#39;t go quite as far replacing budget cuts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott insists lawmakers add $1 billion for K-12 education this year, but that money won&#8217;t go as far replenishing cuts as first thought according to a Legislative budget update this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Kittel, Scott&#8217;s education policy adviser, told a House budget subcommittee this morning that the state now expects more students than initially expected. Property tax revenues are also expected to decline more than first projected, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The net result is an additional $20 million of that proposed $1 billion is needed just to cover current costs and won&#8217;t replace any of the money cut from schools since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/florida\/statements\/2012\/jan\/10\/rick-scott\/rick-scott-says-hes-adding-1-billion-new-education\/\">PoltiFact noted<\/a> after Scott&#8217;s speech yesterday, more than 40 percent of that proposed new money will cover rising costs or declining tax revenues. The remaining $590 million in Scott&#8217;s proposal would help replenish the $1.35 billion lawmakers cut from K-12 education in the current budget year (much of it was expiring one-time federal money the state did not replace).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott insists lawmakers add $1 billion for K-12 education this year, but that money won&#8217;t go as far replenishing cuts as first thought according to a Legislative budget update this morning. Scott Kittel, Scott&#8217;s education policy adviser, told a House budget subcommittee this morning that the state now expects more students than initially [&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":[1105,1036,1028,1027,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115"}],"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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}