When is a promise not a promise? When it is made in Florida
to the states teachers and schools.
Governor Rick Scott appeared on Fox’s Greta Van Susteren’s
show and said he doesn’t believe the legislature is going to allow him to
increase school spending this year. He
said the state’s 8 billion dollar surplus, much of which was created when the state
gave school teachers and other public service workers a three percent pay cut
during the great recession, a pay cut that has never been made up for now that
times have improved, will be pushed to next year.
Many districts gave their teachers long overdue raises in
anticipation of the money, raises which may have to be rescinded or worse jobs
may have to be cut. Florida is already one of the worse states when it comes to
financing education.
Finally I would like to point out that next year, barely regulated
private schools in the voucher program will be able to siphon away nearly a
half billion dollars from public schools further compounding the damage.
Saddled with poor leadership and programs from Tallahassee,
the governor despite his campaign promises to the contrary says our schools are
going to be continued to be starved of resources and it’s shameful.
I can't understand why people voted for this goon. Vouchers take money away from public schools....they starve and then go bankrupt. Check out Jefferson County! Get rid of Rick Scott!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see what happens when they "hopefully" decide that students and teachers will be held harmless for this year's new testing. Since such a large portion of our evaluation is based on these tests. how will they decide if we get a raise or not? I am on the performance scale, and I have a strong suspicion I'm about to get screwed.
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