{"id":6922,"date":"2012-05-01T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2012-05-01T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:59:34","slug":"five-reasons-rick-scott-believes-florida-polytechnic-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/01\/five-reasons-rick-scott-believes-florida-polytechnic-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Why Gov. Rick Scott Believes Florida Polytechnic “Makes Sense”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill creating Florida Polytechnic University into law last month.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gov. Rick Scott says his decision to approve Florida Polytechnic University “makes sense.”<\/p>\n

In an interview with WUSF radio<\/a>, Scott provides his defense:<\/p>\n

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1. It focuses state resources \u201cwhere the jobs are right now\u201d –\u00a0 STEM (science, technology, engineering and math.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. \u201cIt will pay off \u201d by producing more STEM graduates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. \u201cIt\u2019s the exact same funding that we were doing already.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. The Board of Governors has already made this decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s a benefit from starting something from scratch … sometimes when you do that in business, you end up with a better result.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Scott was short on specifics about how the state would measure the university’s performance, and admits that Florida could have bolstered STEM programs at existing universities instead.<\/p>\n

But no one was proposing that, Scott says.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview with Scott on Florida Matters tonight at 6:30<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Rick Scott says his decision to approve Florida Polytechnic University “makes sense.” In an interview with WUSF radio, Scott provides his defense: 1. It focuses state resources \u201cwhere the jobs are right now\u201d –\u00a0 STEM (science, technology, engineering and math.) 2. \u201cIt will pay off \u201d by producing more STEM graduates. 3. \u201cIt\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":6923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1143,1027,1082],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922"}],"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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}