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That was the sentiment of an eight-member panel of education, traininhg and government experts gathered by the South Floridaz Business Journal to examine howthe $787 billion federal stimulus packagw is impacting the region’s educationj and workforce training sectors. The panel markexd the third in theBusiness Journal’s ongoinh stimulus series, aimed at tracking and analyzing the flow of money from the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act into Southg Florida.
Florida’s Legislature was the only one nationallty to request a federal waiver that allowed it to take money from education and replace it with stimulus dollards while other states used stimulua dollars to augment the The situation concerned paneliststate Sen. Eleanof Sobel. “We are not starting at the startinv line. The school district in Browardf County and those throughouty the state are starting behind the starting Sobel said.
“They have had problema for years and they are all Veteran educatorRobert Parks, a member of the Broware County School Board, said, “Manhy of the large urban districts in the nation are afraid of one which is basically a bait and switcn with those dollars.” What’s even more worrisome to some experts is that the stimulu money will eventually run out. “I’m reallu concerned about in thres years; what’s going to happen?” said Vicente, president of ’s Nortj Campus. “This is a Band-Aid.
” He said the college’ operating budget was cut $22 million whiled the stimulus money wasonly $13 Parks said Broward County’s school systemn has cut $1.4 billion from its constructionm budget in addition to furloughing 700 teachers and 51 “We’ve closed all of our schoo offices for the summer. We don’t have summeer school anymore,” Parks said. would have been lookingt at cutting its budget byabougt $30 million without $12 milliojn in stimulus funds, said Dorothy K. the university’s associate VP for financial affairs andbudget director.
The university cut 30 positionsxand “had we not had the stimulus dollars it could have been much more George Hanbury, executive VP and COO of , said the $1.3 billion in stimulus funds given to the state relieved pressure on the Legislaturwe to further reduce support for Florida Residenyt Access Grants (FRAG), a key sourcd of money for students, but he pointes out that the grants used to be $3,0009 a year for students and are now The amount is important to who find enrollment caps at state universitiews and turn to NSU and other privatew institutions.
He also said that universities are working together to applu for federal stimulus NSU has a collaborative proposalp with and FAU fora $50 million research buildingf with wet labs, business incubator space and officesd for the U.S. Geological which is helping overseeEverglades restoration. “We have shovel-readu projects we have submitted to the Governoe and in the next 60 days we coulcdput 1,000 people to Hanbury said. The competition for thesde typesof projects, though, is fierce. FAU is gettingg about $12 million in direc infusion from the federalstimulus package, but the universityu also is seeking money from the for labs and Russell said.
April was the month to submit applications and the results are expected by The strongest flowof money, so far, appears to be for programas that help the jobless as the state’s unemployment rate has hit 10.2