{"id":276460,"date":"2026-05-19T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:30:12","slug":"debate-over-tracking-school-choice-funds-holds-up-floridas-new-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276460\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate over tracking school choice funds holds up Florida&#8217;s new budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disagreement over how to track School Choice funding is holding up Florida&#8217;s state budget.<\/p>\n<p>Florida lawmakers are working on that budget this week, but there is debate over how those scholarships should be listed.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Senate wants school choice funding separated into its own line in the budget. Advocates say the move could create more transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Critics worry isolating School Choice funding could make it easier to limit public school funding in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida House of Representatives wants to keep the voucher funds mixed in with public school funds. <\/p>\n<p>The decision will impact billions of dollars in education funding.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1.4 million students in the state are using the voucher program, according to Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disagreement over how to track School Choice funding is holding up Florida&#8217;s state budget. Florida lawmakers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-276460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}