In a gruesome budget year, who's first in line for the few spare dollars available - Florida's schoolchildren or its poorest and frailest residents? ...more

March 27, 2009

The $2.6 billion package of state budget cuts and funding swaps that lawmakers approved on Wednesday includes the following: ...more

January 15, 2009

Higher taxes and other new sources of revenue loom on Florida's horizon - but not in time to stave off $1 billion in budget cuts now. ...more

January 6, 2009

Higher taxes and other new sources of revenue loom on Florida's horizon -- but not in time to stave off $1 billion in budget cuts now. That was the message from Senate President Jeff Atwater and other leading lawmakers, who spoke today about tackling ways to fatten the state's dwindling coffers when the Legislature convenes this spring. ...more

January 5, 2009

Higher taxes and other new sources of revenue loom on Florida's horizon -- but not in time to stave off $1 billion in budget cuts now. ...more

January 5, 2009

The nation's first charter school run by a public university might be transferred to the Hillsborough County School District because USF Patel Charter School lacks money and services to boost its failing status. ...more

July 30, 2008