Tuition Increase Drops Enrollment

Beginning July 2011, adults have to pay $90 for a year’s tuition if considered instate in Florida. Out of state tuition costs $240 for a year. In Jacksonville Inmates now have to pay out of state tuition to take adult education classes funded by the school system. The state does not recognize inmates as state residents there. This tuition has increased the demand for the library program while school systems across the state are seeing a 30% to 70% drop depending on the county reported Greg Smith, Executive Director of the Florida Literacy Coalition.