{"id":5125,"date":"2012-02-21T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2012-02-21T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:35:53","slug":"tuition-hikes-have-not-replaced-state-cuts-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/21\/tuition-hikes-have-not-replaced-state-cuts-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition Hikes Have Not Replaced State Cuts, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5126\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"President Barack Obama recently spoke about rising college tuition in Michigan. Obama wants to withhold federal money to school which raise tuition.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/ObamaCollegeCost.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5126\" title=\"President Obama Speaks At The University Of Michigan\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/ObamaCollegeCost-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/ObamaCollegeCost-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/ObamaCollegeCost-220x330.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/ObamaCollegeCost.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Bill Pugliano \/ Getty News Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama recently spoke about rising college tuition in Michigan. Obama wants to withhold federal money to school which raise tuition.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tuition hikes at Florida universities have not made up for state budget cuts since 2007, according to an analysis by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcfep.org\/\">Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because budget cuts mean the state is spending roughly the same amount on higher education now as it did in 2002 &#8212; and that&#8217;s before the proposed cuts in the budget year beginning July 1. The Senate has proposed $400 million in cuts while the House draft spending plan would cut $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>The story is similar at Florida&#8217;s 28 state colleges, where total spending per student has declined by 7 percent between 2006 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The effects of disinvestment in higher education extend to the quality of life and economic vitality of Florida in the future,&#8221; the report&#8217;s authors write. &#8220;By scrimping on higher education, Florida moves further away from the most important requirement for job creation &#8212; providing a well-educated workforce for current businesses and for those we seek to attract to move to Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcfep.org\/attachments\/20120221--Legislature%20Continues%20Record%20of%20Disinvesting%20in%20Higher%20Education\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuition hikes at Florida universities have not made up for state budget cuts since 2007, according to an analysis by the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy. That&#8217;s because budget cuts mean the state is spending roughly the same amount on higher education now as it did in 2002 &#8212; and that&#8217;s before the [&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":[1105,1036,1104,289,1078],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125"}],"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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}