Education Budget

The budget includes $30 billion for K-12 schools, with $201 million for teacher pay increases. That raise, though, will only go to teachers with 10 years of experience, with the increase capped at $3,000 per year.

Differences between the House and Senate stem from the approach to funding for preeminent research universities, including USF, and the move of USF Sarasota-Manatee to New College.

Charter schools are public schools often run by private operators. Lawmakers in 2017 created the schools of hope program to serve children in areas with “persistently low-performing” traditional public schools.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Monday his commitment to raise state funds for teacher salaries to $1.25 billion, an increase of almost a quarter-billion dollars. Public education advocates said that won't alleviate the teacher shortage.

The Florida House and Senate each are proposing different ways to slash as much as $593 million from the state university system this fiscal year.

The school district says it must make the cuts, or risk not being able to pay its staff by summer.

The requests would bring K-12 funding to a record high of $22.8 billion and raise per-student funding by $233 to $8,019.

The Florida Board of Education on Friday advanced a $21.8 billion request for public school funding in the next budget year, including a $200 boost in…

Gov. Rick Scott stopped at a Tampa elementary school Monday morning, touting what he called a record budget for education. Scott may not get what he wants…

Florida lawmakers are getting closer to a budget deal that will add more money for schools. Florida schools would get $207 more per student if the...

Port Richey Republican Sen. John Legg has founded a charter school and is chairman of the Senate Education committee.So people listened when Legg raised…