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Bad Policy and Low Pay...

August 26, 2019

Over the next few months this multi-part series will take a deep dive into the ways that Florida’s education policies have led to a full-scale crisis in the teaching profession.

Every student in Florida deserves to be in a classroom with a certified, highly-qualified, and dedicated teacher. Students deserve schools with full-time media specialists and schools that are staffed with more counselors and nurses than security guards. Florida’s students deserve the very best. Currently, Florida’s politicians are failing Florida’s future.

Over the past two decades the Legislature and

(August 23, 2019)

FEA calls for $22 billion, multi-year investment in schools

TALLAHASSEE — After 20 years of neglect and bad policy, the Florida Education Association (FEA) is

calling for a "Decade of Progress" for Florida’s public schools. This means a multi-year commitment of

$22 billion for our public school students.

“We are in an education crisis in this state,” said FEA President Fedrick Ingram. “Our children are

paying the price for more than two decades of underfunding and poor policy decisions. We have a

severe teacher shortage, and about 300,000 students started school this year without

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

Bad Policy and Low Pay...

FEA Calls for 'A Decade of Progress'

In defense of public education