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In a bid to address the ongoing teacher shortage crisis, the New Jersey Education Association is actively campaigning for the elimination of a basic skills test for teachers.
The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires that, in order for states to receive federal funding, all teachers must be "highly qualified" as defined in the law by the end of the 2006-07 school year. [2] The Florida Department of Education has defined a highly qualified teacher to be one who has (1) fulfilled the state's ...
The Florida Educator Accomplished Practices, or FEAPs, are core standards provided by the Florida Department of Education for teacher development, detailing the knowledge and skills teachers are expected to have. They provide the framework for Florida's teaching prep programs, certification requirements, and teacher assessment systems.
In 2010, a New Jersey Star-Ledger study of teacher salaries showed the average pay for N.J. teachers was $63,154; the median salary was $57,467 annually. The salaries were the fourth highest in the country. Administrators salaries were larger than teachers' salaries, with 235 of them making more than the governor's $175,000 salary. [9]
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[24] [25] Average teacher salaries rank near the middle of U.S. states. [26] Florida public schools have consistently ranked in the bottom 25 percent of many national surveys and average test-score rankings before allowances for race are made. [27]
The Florida Education Association (FEA) is a statewide federation of teacher and education workers' labor unions in the US state of Florida. Its 145,000 members make it the largest union in the state. It is a merged affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), and is a member of the AFL–CIO.
Two New Jersey educators who together make over $600,000 per year reportedly live 1,200 miles away in sunny Florida — which may be a violation of state law. Two New Jersey educators who together ...