DeSantis said Thursday he’s proposing $550 million, an increase of $50 million from this year, in the 2021-2022 state budget “to continue raising the minimum K-12 teacher salary to the goal of getting the average minimum salary statewide to be $47,500.”
The governor said the budget also would include salary increases for “other eligible teachers and instruction personnel.”
DeSantis said his proposed budget “builds off that success” of increasing teacher minimum salaries. But teacher advocates expressed concern that, like last year, his proposal largely might abandon the most experienced teachers.
“We think it is great that he is putting priority toward educators’ salaries,” said Vanessa Skipper, vice president of the Brevard Federation of Teachers. “But we hope that the money will be more balanced and that veteran teachers will see an increase to their pay as well.”
Orange County Public Schools on Tuesday listed their highest total of students and employees who have the coronavirus. The number of quarantines on that day was nearly 500. District officials said the number represents cases from the long holiday weekend, but the teacher s association said it is overwhelmed. We’re overwhelmed with emails and calls from teachers who are so frustrated because of course more students went back to the schools. They called in teachers even those with ADA accommodations to teach face to face, classes are crowded. The cases are off the charts,” Wendy Doromal, president of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association said. We re only about halfway through the month, that it makes up 32% of all the cases for the whole school year, she added. What can be done is largely being done within the confines of us having to have physical school open and accept every child whose parent wants them to attend. The problem is, is that whole system is kind o
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The advisory committee is putting teachers in the frontline essential workers category.
Wendy Doromal with the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association in Florida said there is growing concern from teachers who are hoping their turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine will come soon.
She shared this link on the union s Facebook page, which leads to The Florida Education Association s website.
On the website for the association that represents teachers statewide, a message reads: “the CDC recommends that educators–teachers and staff alike–should have access to the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible.”