{"id":4638,"date":"2012-02-02T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:01:33","slug":"why-gov-rick-scott-cant-prevent-university-tuition-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/02\/why-gov-rick-scott-cant-prevent-university-tuition-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Gov. Rick Scott Can’t Prevent University Tuition Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Rick Scott opposes tuition hikes that could result from the proposed Florida House budget.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gov. Rick Scott has thrown out a handful of education markers for lawmakers this session, most notably threatening to veto any budget that does not increase K-12 funding.<\/p>\n

Scott told lawmakers that he also opposes a proposed budget that would raise tuition at state universities. But it’s worth underlining a passage in the Orlando Sentinel’s<\/em> budget story today: Scott’s veto may be useless to stop tuition hikes:<\/p>\n

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Scott has said he wanted to keep Florida’s tuition rates lower than other states’ as a competitive advantage and harked back to his own days as a self-financed college student. But he may not have much say in the decision.<\/p>\n

House Appropriations Chair Denise Grimsley, R-Sebring, said Wednesday that the governor won’t be able to veto the hikes because they aren’t being implemented by a line item in the budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2007 Lawmakers first gave universities the ability to raise tuition by 15 percent a year, as long as tuition was below the national average. That means budget writers don’t have to approve tuition increases — universities can just raise the cost.<\/p>\n

It also means that unless Scott wants to flex some muscle elsewhere, he’s powerless to stop the estimated $245 million in coming tuition hikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Rick Scott has thrown out a handful of education markers for lawmakers this session, most notably threatening to veto any budget that does not increase K-12 funding. Scott told lawmakers that he also opposes a proposed budget that would raise tuition at state universities. But it’s worth underlining a passage in the Orlando Sentinel’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1036,1104,1028,1027,276],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638"}],"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=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}