AWAKE the State Rally MARCH 8th Throughout Florida!

[Bob Wells]

So teacher shouldn't have to pay for supplies and stuff for their classrooms, right?

None AFAIK. But considering how much they make I don't think they can complain. A lot of folks aren't getting raises or worse getting laid off. If you have a job enjoy it and remember once the good times are back again and we have surpluses the perks will follow.

 

[wrobert]

how many teachers pay raises in the last 5 years??

Two if memory serves me correctly. Insurance contributions have increased each of the last three. And now a contribution to retirement. But still not as bad as I have seen it in the private sector. I keep thinking about all of these guys that promised that teachers should be making a 100K a year though.

The interesting thing I have heard though is that since current teachers are frozen on the salary schedule, say they have 10 years of experience but are stuck at 7 years due to no raises, new hires with 10 years experience are going in at the 10 year mark, making more than current. Have not run up on anyone to verify this though, but have been told by some teachers this is happening. I did not think we counted more than five years prior experience when hiring. Maybe Mark will speak to this.

 

[wrobert]

Car is packed--picking up 2 Sowallers very early tomorrow. Checked spelling on all my placards--don't want Fox embarrasing us! Actually I hope Fox is there so I can lead the chant against them.

This is sooooo exciting! Will report tomorrow on the progress! Let's see..Moubarrak, Khadaffi, and Scott (sounds like an international law firm) ....One, two, and three, down they all will go !

God save and bless America's dying middle class!

Way more Democrats than Republicans in Florida. Scott appears to be doing pretty much what he said he was going to do. Wonder how he won.

 

[Bob Wells]

Way more Democrats than Republicans in Florida. Scott appears to be doing pretty much what he said he was going to do. Wonder how he won.

Democrats/ Republicans or independent thinkers. I say there are more independent thinkers, he just picked up 50,000 more than Alex did.

 

[30ashopper]

So teacher shouldn't have to pay for supplies and stuff for their classrooms, right?

Considering all the money we've been throwing at education I don't see why they should.

 

[Rita]

Considering all the money we've been throwing at education I don't see why they should.

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How much has the student population increased in Florida over the time period of that graph?


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[beachmouse]

I really need to have the article talking about how state higher ed funding is something like $10K less per student than it was in the 1980s once you account for both inflation and a failure of the state to increase funding at the same rate as enrollment growth.

 

[30ashopper]

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How much has the student population increased in Florida over the time period of that graph?


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According to recent census data overall population growth totaled about 17% over the last decade.

 

[30ashopper]

I really need to have the article talking about how state higher ed funding is something like $10K less per student than it was in the 1980s once you account for both inflation and a failure of the state to increase funding at the same rate as enrollment growth.

Lets look at this more reasonably. If we can find enrollment data for the last ten years, we can compare that with just the state's budgetary spending over the same period, and I can factor in inflation. Then we can get a feel for just how "underfunded" our public K-12 schools really are.