{"id":6131,"date":"2012-04-06T10:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2012-04-06T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T16:13:06","slug":"college-textbooks-take-bite-out-of-florida-high-school-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/06\/college-textbooks-take-bite-out-of-florida-high-school-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"College Textbooks Take Bite Out Of Florida High School Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6132\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/06\/college-textbooks-take-bite-out-of-florida-high-school-budgets\/textbooks-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6132\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6132\" title=\"textbooks\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/04\/textbooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">thinkprogress.org<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida high schools are graded in part by the number of college-level classes they offer high school students. \u00a0Those classes require college textbooks, which are more expensive than high school textbooks, and the state doesn&#8217;t always give high schools enough money to cover the difference.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When students take college-level classes through their high school, their school has to provide the textbooks. \u00a0Last year, Sneads High School in Jackson County was given about a thousand dollars toward those costs. They went about $3000 over.<\/p>\n<p>School principal Laurence Pender says college textbooks don&#8217;t last long before they&#8217;re considered outdated. \u00a0&#8220;I bought an art book this last year for a student and with what that art book cost me, I could have bought a textbook that lasted 5 or 10 years if I had them take care of it,\u201d said Pender. \u201cThat book is going to be out of date in a year or a semester, and it hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pender says the only way he can cover the costs of the college textbooks is to take money away from other departments at his high school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida high schools are graded in part by the number of college-level classes they offer high school students. \u00a0Those classes require college textbooks, which are more expensive than high school textbooks, and the state doesn&#8217;t always give high schools enough money to cover the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1036,1048],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131"}],"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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}