Despite a record $21.8 billion state surplus, Florida ranks 48th nationally in terms of teacher pay, with the average teacher salary hovering around $51,000 a year. The state also has a teacher shortage, with nearly 10,000 vacancies.
for teachers from $40,000 to $47,000 earlier this year in March, bringing up the state’s starting pay from 26th in the nation to ninth. 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.“I think we saw that [message] throughout the pandemic,” Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teacher’s union, told Yahoo News.
“What we’ve seen since 2010 is that the pay for experienced teachers has gone down, and very dramatically, in these last three and a half years under our current governor,” he said. 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. “What is woke math? I don’t know and I’m sure they don’t even know, but math books have been taken away from schools because of this,” Cooper said, adding that the policy affects the small libraries teachers spend their own money on to buy books for students to explore a wide range of topics. “We always preach to the students that you have to read to succeed. Now they’re taking that away.
But not all Florida residents believe the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is a bad thing for schools and the students. Charlotte Joyce, a Duval County School Board member,“These parents entrust their children to us every single day,” Joyce. “That the school district is knowingly socially transitioning students at school without parents’ knowledge, I really wanted that to come out.”
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