Budget Cuts Now Make it More Expensive for Florida’s Students to Attend UF Than Vanderbilt
Are the realities of a decade of Republican budget cuts to public education finally coming home to roost?
Friday’s Orlando Sentinel story revealed that since 1995, Florida has paid out $754.2 million to companies in an attempt to create jobs in Florida. While 224,286 were promised, only 73,669 were delivered. This equals a cost of $10,237 per job or about 4609 jobs per year. It should be left up to economist as to whether or not this has any value for Floridians. But when considered against Republican cuts to education over the last decade, the picture looks quite different.
In a Gainesville Suneditorial this week, former Florida governor and US Senator Bob Graham was quoted. Wrote