for teachers from $40,000 to $49,000 earlier this year in March, bringing up the state's starting pay from 26th in the nation to 9th.
for teachers from $40,000 to $49,000 earlier this year in March, bringing up the state's starting pay from 26th in the nation to 9th. But while DeSantis has been attempting to lure new teachers, his critics say, he has also shown those with experience that they aren't a top priority.
Marlon Greig, a teacher at Earlington Heights Elementary School in Miami, has two siblings on active duty in the military, but admits that he wouldn’t trust them to teach his own children. To hear supporters of DeSantis tell it, however, the education landscape in Florida has never been better. On Friday, the governor celebrated the state's number one ranking for"overall education freedom" from the“Florida lawmakers set a high standard for academic transparency and rejecting critical race theory’s pernicious ideas in 2022,” the Heritage Foundation said in its report.
A staunch advocate of the new law, DeSantis has often said that it will allow students to “get an education, not an indoctrination.” The governor’s office did not respond to several Yahoo News requests for comment for this article. The governor himself has maintained that challenges to the Stop Woke Act will be appealed and that the legislation is ultimately likely to be reinstated.
Cooper recently resigned from his teaching position in July because of what he called “unreasonable” expectations. He is set to soon start at a charter school and hopes to be rid of the pressures of the DeSantis administration and the public school bureaucracy. “Now, I do not share a single thing about my personal life besides hobbies and favorite things,” he added. “My students and I do not discuss what we did over the weekend, when they ask about my romantic interest I have to shut them down and squash the conversation, so my students do not feel as easily connected to me as my students did last year.”