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Fund Our Future
Fund Our Future is a statewide campaign to advocate for and shine a light on the needs of Florida’s public school students.After 20 years, we are clearly at a crisis… Read more…
March 4, 2019 Day of action
On March 4th, thousands of members across the state engaged in locally driven and statewide coordinated activities. Members had community conversations, student actions, press conferences, letter-writing campaigns, sign waving, marches,… Read more…
Hurricane Michael Relief
On October 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle. The storm devastated 11 schools in Calhoun, Bay, and Gulf; but our union is stronger than any hurricane. FEA and… Read more…
1968 Statewide Teacher Walkout
https://vimeo.com/235702847On February 19, 1968 some 35,000 teachers in Florida walked off their job protesting the state’s neglect of its public schools and students. The three-week statewide walkout — which would… 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…