April 24, 2012. Meanwhile “a new university is formed with state funding that could be used to fortify an already crowded field of state schools.”
David DiSalvo
April 23, 2012
Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the 2012 state budget at a Jacksonville elementary school, presumably to emphasize the budget’s inclusion of an additional $1 billion for education. That would be impressive, if not for the fact that last year he cut the state’s education budget by $1.3 billion. That’s like burning down someone’s house, replacing it with the wooden frame of a house and calling it progress.
Such is the track record of Governor Scott, whose proficiency with double speak would have made Orwell wince. While claiming to be Florida’s greatest champion for education, he’s busy approving plans that hamstring educators at every level — and leave students out in the cold.
Case in point: my Forbes colleague Steven Salzberg reports on a plan to cut–as in completely eradicate–the University of Florida’s (UF) computer and information science department — a move couched as a consequence of Scott’s university-neutering budget.
Read more at Forbes.com