The campaign calls on Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran to delay standardized tests for students learning English as a second language, waive penalties for students who choose not to participate in in-person exams, and provide greater protection against COVID. -19 to those students who show up to take the tests.
With more students to attend in-person classes, Florida teachers lobby for vaccine priority by John Haughey, The Center Square | January 07, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article
With parents of struggling students enrolled in online programs being urged by state and local educators to return to in-person classes, Florida’s K-12 public schools are anticipating a significant increase in classroom instruction as spring semesters begin this week.
Florida’s largest teachers union and local education associations say that emphasis doesn’t jibe with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ determination that public school educators not be priority “front-line” recipients of COVID-19 vaccines.
According to the Florida Education Association (FEA), DeSantis’ variance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation that teachers and school staff be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines puts educators at risk, especially as more stud
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BARTOW Officials with the Polk Education Association and Polk County Public Schools remain at impasse on what to pay teachers, paraeducators and clerical staff all as those employees continue to work through a pandemic that has landed at least two Lakeland teachers in the intensive care unit with COVID-19.
On Monday and Tuesday, the union and district officials are scheduled to sit down with a special magistrate and present their cases for formal review.
At issue are:
• Increasing paraeducator, secretarial and clerical pay to $10 an hour, which PEA officials said would cost the district an additional $2.2 million. It would also put the district in compliance ahead of schedule with the recently passed Amendment 2, which requires minimum wage be increased to $15 an hour incrementally over the next five years.