{"id":4379,"date":"2012-01-19T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2012-01-19T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:25:58","slug":"house-budget-matches-gov-scotts-1-billion-school-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/19\/house-budget-matches-gov-scotts-1-billion-school-request\/","title":{"rendered":"House Budget Matches Gov. Scott’s $1 Billion School Request"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew Magill \/ Flickr<\/p>

The House has met Gov. Rick Scott's challenge to add $1 billion for K-12.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Florida House is proposing a budget<\/a> that would match Gov. Rick Scott’s goal of adding $1 billion for K-12 education, according to the Orlando Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, said adding the money won’t be easy, but the state’s economy is improving. From Cannon’s press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We have endeavored to prioritize the most essential functions of state government. I want to specifically draw your attention to public school funding. Enrollment in our public schools has increased while local school revenues have sharply decreased. These two factors alone create a shortfall of nearly half a billion dollars.<\/p>\n

Our analysis and prioritization with respect to K-12 education funding mirror those of Governor Scott. We have funded K-12 with an allocation exceeding $1 billion in new state funding to the Florida Education Finance Program. This addresses all of the shortfalls in K-12 education and also provides an increase in per student funding of 2.27 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Senate is now on the clock for their proposal. The body has floated the idea of recessing for several weeks to see if the state’s budget situation changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Florida House is proposing a budget that would match Gov. Rick Scott’s goal of adding $1 billion for K-12 education, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, said adding the money won’t be easy, but the state’s economy is improving. From Cannon’s press release: We have endeavored to prioritize the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1105,1036,242,1027],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379"}],"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=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}