TALLAHASSEE — After cutting state borrowing by about $2.5 billion since he took office, Gov. Rick Scott has reversed course and backed a legislative plan to finance more than $600 million in education construction projects in the new budget.
It will mark the first time since 2011 that the state has issued bonds to pay for new schools, and state university and college buildings.
The beneficiaries will range from $9 million for the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine to $75 million for school projects in eight of Florida’s smallest, most rural counties to a combined $42.5 million for university projects in downtown Orlando and Tampa.
