{"id":289775,"date":"2026-05-30T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:01:11","slug":"state-lawmakers-approve-114-billion-budget-with-north-central-florida-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289775\/","title":{"rendered":"State lawmakers approve $114 billion budget with North Central Florida funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; State lawmakers approved a $114 billion budget on Friday, with funding for a number of North Central Florida projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Almost a billion dollars is being allocated for school readiness programs statewide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Alachua County Early Learning Coalition program would get more than $11 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marion County is scheduled to receive more than $16 million for its program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nine and a half million dollars is set to go toward readiness programs in Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Union and Suwannee counties combined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Programs in Dixie, Gilchrist and Levy counties are sharing an $11.5 million pot of money with Citrus and Sumter counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/05\/29\/florida-lawmakers-pass-millions-education-partial-raises-state-workers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/05\/29\/florida-lawmakers-pass-millions-education-partial-raises-state-workers\/\">Florida lawmakers pass millions for education, partial raises for state workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; State lawmakers approved a $114 billion budget on Friday, with funding for a number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72000,28,33037,30,29,122556,122555,107749],"class_list":["post-289775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-early-learning-coalition","tag-florida","tag-florida-budget","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-north-central-florida-funding","tag-school-readiness-programs","tag-state-lawmakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289775","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=289775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}