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Florida Standards Assessment FAQs
We know you have questions about Gov. DeSantis’ recent announcement that the 2021-22 school year will be the last year of the Florida Standards Assessment. The most common questions we’ve… Read more…
FAQs about the Legislature’s Salary Plan
FEA received a number of questions before and during FEA's recent Facebook Live event covering the Legislature’s pay plan. Read them here. As more or new information becomes available we… Read more…
Will I receive a raise next school year?
Don’t like what you see in the flowchart?Get in touch with your local legislators today and tell them any salary plan must be long-term, include all school employees, respect local… Read more…
2020 Legislative Agenda
Florida’s abysmal record on education has resulted in over a decade of neglect for our schools and our children. After years of hurtful policies and neglect, we are calling for… 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…
Best and Brightest Update
This page contains information related to the Best and Brightest Program for the 2019-20 school year as implemented by Senate Bill 7070. If you are looking for information regarding the Best… Read more…
VAM Scam
Part II: Value-Added Measures: Valuing Meaningless Data over High-Quality InstructionThe first article in our series of how Florida’s education policies are undermining student success focused on teacher pay. However, we… 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…
Florida’s Failed Accountability System
School Grades Are the Tip of the Iceberg of a Broken Accountability SystemSchool grades were released last week, and as every educator already knows, they tell us much more about… Read more…
Taxpayer Funded Discrimination at Florida’s Voucher Schools
There are hundreds of companies in Florida that have funded voucher schools through tax-credits. The state’s largest voucher organization that solicits these contributions is Step up for Students. Most of… Read more…
The Reality of School Grades
This year marks the 21st release of the school grades in Florida, and now more than ever it is clear that rather than being a cause for celebration, these manufactured grades… Read more…
Democracy Dies in the Darkness (An update on House Bill 7123)
We have reached day 53 of the 60-day legislative session. This is the time of year where budget deals are often cut and the Legislature likes to operate out of… Read more…
Senate Bill 7070 Update
On just the third day of session we warned there would be a massive education bill put forth by the Senate that would impact everything from certification requirements to Best… Read more…
Senate Bill 7030 Update
Senate Bill 7030 had the chance to be a momentous piece of legislation that passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. However, the inclusion of a provision that would allow for the… Read more…
Thousands stand up for neighborhood public schools, students and educators
Who says Florida’s neighborhood public schools need better funding? The people do.Time and again, this state’s electorate has demonstrated broad, bipartisan consensus on the need to invest in our neighborhood… Read more…
Final week before session: legislation to watch
Here are a few bills we wanted to flag a few bills that are on all of our radar: SB 520: This bill would ensure that the seven counties hardest… Read more…
Senate releases education package proposal
Members of the Senate President’s education team ⎯ Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R-Hialeah Gardens), Chair of the Senate Committee on Education, Senator Kelli Stargel (R-Lakeland), Chair of the Senate Appropriations… Read more…
More choice?
The House Education committee heard a presentation from Adam Miller, Office of Independent Education and Parental Choice within the Department of Education. Miller began his presentation focused on the voucher… Read more…
Locked out, but never knocked out
Despite pandemic restrictions, FEA members found numerous ways to speak up for students, public education, and our freedoms and working conditions
Cover Story: The advocate’s advocate
From the time he entered the classroom in 1958, Ulysses Floyd has been working to improve conditions for Florida’s students and educators.
Andrew Spar: We continue the fight for Florida to ‘Fund Our Future’
So many of the events of the past year have had a profound effect on our lives. I’d like to begin with a review.Last January, we came to Tallahassee and…
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Reducing high-stakes testing is a win for students, schools
Today’s move to drop high-stakes Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) testing in the 2022-2023 school year is a big win for our students and public schools. It will free up time…
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On top of Covid, add a huge shortage of teachers and staff
FEA survey finds nearly 5,000 teaching vacancies, more than 3,700 open staff jobs. To a resurgent pandemic and a divisive debate over masks, add one more looming issue facing Florida’s…
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United Faculty of Florida Joins Suit Against State to Defend Freedoms of Students and Faculty
The United Faculty of Florida believes that all Floridians — no matter where we’re from or what we look like — deserve good jobs, healthy and safe communities, and a…