Florida State Budget for Education



Florida State Budget for Education

Florida State Budget for Education

Florida has been especially hard hit by the mortgage crisis, and our state budget is in shambles. Unfortunately for the state's 28 community colleges, their public funding comes only from the state level. Less than 60 percent of Miami Dade College's funding comes from the state, and the remainder is raised through tuition. Miami Dade College also expects to absorb an additional $14.7 million in unfunded students, because community colleges in Florida are reverse funded, meaning that the state bases its funding on enrollment from the previous year ...