{"id":4238,"date":"2012-01-13T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2012-01-13T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T19:51:49","slug":"inside-gov-scott%e2%80%99s-1-billion-education-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/13\/inside-gov-scott%e2%80%99s-1-billion-education-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Gov. Scott\u2019s $1 Billion Education Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4265\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/2341803987_ef9321dd36.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4265\" title=\"2341803987_ef9321dd36\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/2341803987_ef9321dd36-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/2341803987_ef9321dd36-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/2341803987_ef9321dd36-220x176.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/2341803987_ef9321dd36.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">wonderferret \/ flick<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governor Rick Scott keeps saying he will veto any budget bill that does not significantly increase funding \u00a0for Florida public schools. And he&#8217;s proposing an extra billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/11\/a-billion-dollars-doesnt-go-as-far-as-it-used-to-for-florida-education\/\">But it turns out <\/a>not all of that money would actually be new money for schools, according to\u00a0the Governor&#8217;s top education policy chief, Scott Kittel.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the breakdown of the proposed $1.02 billion:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$224 million to replace nonrecurring one-time revenue from last year&#8217;s budget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$220 million to offset anticipated losses from declining property tax revenue that would have gone to schools.<\/li>\n<li>$381 million for additional per student funding to double the funding for reading instruction and raise school <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/05\/teachers-at-a-rated-florida-schools-still-waiting-on-bonuses\/\">performance bonuses<\/a> to $100 per student (from $70 per student in the current year).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>$190 million for 30,567 additional students at current year funding of $6,230.40 per student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those funds restore the current level per-student funding and covers a projected 2.69 million students.<\/p>\n<p>This plan would also do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain the current year required local millage of 5.446.<\/li>\n<li>Transfer $959.2 million in funding for the School Lunch Program to the\u00a0Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the Florida Resident Access Grant by $17.6 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the House Education PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee <a href=\"http:\/\/myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Documents\/loaddoc.aspx?PublicationType=Committees&amp;CommitteeId=2602&amp;Session=2012&amp;DocumentType=Meeting%20Packets&amp;FileName=PreK12_Approps_Mtg_1-12-12_ONLINE.pdf\">agenda packet here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rick Scott keeps saying he will veto any budget bill that does not significantly increase funding \u00a0for Florida public schools. And he&#8217;s proposing an extra billion dollars. But it turns out not all of that money would actually be new money for schools, according to\u00a0the Governor&#8217;s top education policy chief, Scott Kittel. Here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":4265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1028,1027],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238"}],"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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}