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FEA leadership affirmed, educators face future united
ORLANDO — Delegates to the 2021 Florida Education Association (FEA) Delegate Assembly reaffirmed the statewide union’s leadership on Friday, Oct. 15. President Andrew Spar, Vice President Carole Gauronskas and Secretary-Treasurer… Read more…
Overtesting of Florida’s Students
Part IV: Test Mania – How Florida Lost its Focus on What Matters in EducationFlorida’s students have suffered from the policy decisions made in Tallahassee over the past two decades.Low wages… Read more…
Annual Contracts: An Attack on Teacher Professionalism
Part III: Annual Contracts and Due Process The first article in our series of how Florida’s education policies are undermining student success focused on teacher pay. Part two of the series began the examination of bad… Read more…
VAM Scam
Part II: Value-Added Measures: Valuing Meaningless Data over High-Quality Instruction The first article in our series of how Florida’s education policies are undermining student success focused on teacher pay. However,… Read more…
Low Pay — Why it Matters to Students and Parents, How We Got Here and How to Recover
By now, almost everyone knows the statistics. Florida’s educators are woefully underpaid – 48th in the nation – and that, in part, has contributed to a massive teacher shortage. In the… Read more…
Bad Policy and Low Pay: How Florida is Undermining Student Success
This multi-part series, first published in 2019, takes a deep dive into the ways that Florida’s education policies have led to a full-scale crisis in the teaching profession.Every student in Florida… Read more…
UFF leads fight for intellectual freedom
University of Florida students and faculty gather Nov. 12, 2021, to advocate for free speech and academic freedom. The United Faculty of Florida, FEA’s higher education affiliate, has stepped forward…
Celebrating American Education Week
Neighborhood public schools are a vital part of our communities, and about 90 percent of Florida’s students are educated in public schools. Join us in celebrating public education and all…
Op-ed: Curing Covid wouldn’t fix teacher, staff shortages
The reports of severe staffing shortages in our schools keep coming. In districts throughout the state, there aren’t enough people to teach, transport, feed and otherwise care for Florida’s students.…
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New numbers make clear the severity of staff shortages in our schools
As senators may take up a bill Tuesday that would help get more support staff working in our schools, a new count of advertised vacancies makes clear just how desperate…
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Governor’s education plan falls short — all of Florida’s children deserve strong public schools
As we enter a third pandemic year, Florida’s public schools are facing a significant crisis. Every student has been affected by disruptions related to Covid. Second-graders have never experienced a…
FEA: We look forward to finding solutions that truly meet students’ needs
As Gov. DeSantis releases his state budget recommendations for 2022-2023, the Florida Education Association (FEA) is looking ahead to the legislative session and what needs to happen for our students,…
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