TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who was criticized for pushing school funding cuts a few months ago, is asking for a billion dollars more for education to come during an election year.

Scott on Wednesday will introduce a budget for 2012 that calls for increasing the amount spent on the state's nearly 2.7 billion public school students by slightly more than $100 each and more than $1 billion overall.

While the overall amount per student is not going up that much, it marks a dramatic change for the Republican governor.

Scott recommended a 10 percent cut in February and then signed into law a budget that reduced school funding by $1.3 billion. The real-life effect was softened somewhat because teachers were forced to start picking up part of the cost of their pension that had been paid by school districts.