to shrivel significantly this year for a real economic reason or just because you have a bad governor. we call this the rick scott test because elected florida governor rick scott didn't just use a deficit to justify cutting public education down to the bone and through it. he didn't say oh, our state deficit is so bad i've got to kill education to make the deficit better. no, rick scott gets the bad governor test named after him because rick scott found a way to make huge, devastating cuts to education in a way that does not help the state's budget deficit at all. rick scott has just announced his new budget in florida. it takes more than $1.7 billion out of the public schools and instead of putting that money back into the budget gives it away in corporate and property tax breaks. so k-12 education gets absolutely eviscerated in the state of florida and the money saved by the state no longer spending the money on the