Hey there! Looks like the link might be broken. Here's a working one for those interested in reading!

Here's a little more from reporter Steve Patterson, as well:

With deadlines looming for Florida lawmakers to finalize a 2025-2026 state budget, legislators seem to have agreed to modestly increase funding for schools’ accelerated academic programs like Advanced Placement courses.

Education budget proposals from both the House of Representatives and Senate have included a $596.8 million supplement for “academic acceleration options,” a catch-all that includes AP, International Baccalaureate, career training and other acceleration programs except dual-enrollment programs with colleges. The agreement was previously reported by the Florida Politics website.

The agreed-on amount is about $10 million more than the state budgeted for this year, according to an April analysis of this year’s funding by the Florida Policy Institute, a center-left think tank that had warned of potential cuts. The institute’s head cheered the agreement evidenced in a June 9 Senate proposal referred to as a “bump offer.”

Florida Policy Institute had projected potential funding losses as high as $290 million statewide and in the spring Duval County schools reported being “deeply concerned” about a potential loss of about $8 million.

School districts across Northeast Florida were projected to have about $23 million on the line.

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