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		<title>Senate budget: Don Gaetz questioned over mentoring funding</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the Florida Senate began considering its proposed $80.9 billion budget, state Sen. Don Gaetz on Wednesday defended his recommendation for a $30 million competitive grants program for after-school mentoring instead of direct funding. Gaetz, who chairs the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee, said he wanted to save nonprofits on &#8220;expensive lobbying and the anguish of the Legislative Session.&#8221; &#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t have to put those people through that,&#8221; the Niceville Republican said, referring to being left out of the budget. His subcommittee &#8220;felt that (by) taking it&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Senate budget eliminates direct funding for youth mentoring</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Joe Negron, a former budget panel chief, told his colleagues last month in an acceptance speech for his upcoming Senate presidency that the state must do more for its troubled children and teens. &#8220;We should not and we will not tolerate serious wrongdoing by young people but, at the same time, let&#8217;s not criminalize adolescence,&#8221; he said, according to the Senate Journal&#8217;s version. Most experts agree that after-school mentoring programs, such as those offered by Big Brothers Big Sisters, are effective at&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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