Education cuts may screw Florida’s chances at stimulus money
January 30, 2009 at 7:35 am by Wayne GarciaThe state hopes to get $3.5 billion in stimulus money earmarked for education, a big help in filling Florida’s budget hole.
But the Orlando Sentinel says not so fast there.
The daily reports that a provision in the economic recovery package calls for the stimulus money to go only to those states that can support “schools for the next two years at the levels they had in the 2005-06 school year.
“But the state is below that threshold,” the paper reports. “In fact, school funding coming directly from the state is now lower than it was in the 2004-05 school year. With Florida’s budget shortfall for next year ballooning toward $4 billion, it’s not clear it could meet that requirement.”
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