Education

Education, that is to say the Florida's Bright Future Scholarship Program, has felt a direct threatening blow due to our downward spiraling economy. In the state of Florida a lottery was passed to supplement the needs of education. However, due to the budget shortfall for education, "the politicians took out of the education budget an amt. equal to what the lottery supplied & Fla. Bright Scholars scholarships are to be funded by the lottery, but due to revenue shortfalls dropping or reducing it was considered!" http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/02/where_does_and_should_the_mone.html. The State University Presidents want to control program cost, that is to say the Florida's Bright Future Scholarship Program, by increasing requirements, while they also increase the availability of need-based aid " ... recommending a reduction in the number of scholarship awards by increasing the academic eligibility for Bright Futures scholarships, that is to say increase the Academic Scholars Award SAT score from 1270 to 1330, the 95 percentile, and increase the Medallion Scholars Award from 970 to 1070, the 65 percentile. This will make Bright Futures truly scholarly ..." http://www.fc100.org/documents/positionpaper31403.pdf Due to the education budget shortfall, with only 2 months remaining in the current school year, this District has to reduce its budget by an additional 7 million.