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Florida teachers will see an increase in salaries for the 2024-2025 school year, but the money came with a message.
The starting salary for teachers in Palm Beach County is $51,500, according to 2023 figures from the school district. Teachers can be paid up to $77,233 if they have 25 years of experience.
And a bill called the “Save Our Teachers Act” that would have raised base pay from $47,500 to $65,000 failed to advance in the Florida Legislature during this past session. This has led many ...
The strike involved teachers and other PAT members at Portland Public Schools, the largest school district in Oregon. The strike began on November 1, 2023 and ended November 26, 2023. [17] [18] The 2024 Greater Albany Education Association (GAEA) teacher strike began on November 12, 2024 in Greater Albany Public Schools in Albany, Oregon. The ...
Thousands did. Schools closed in roughly two-thirds of Florida's counties. At the height of the strike, 25,712 teachers—about 40 percent of the state's teachers—walked out. The statewide Florida teachers' strike was not uniform, however. Strikes lasted only a few days in some districts, while in others teachers walked picket lines for weeks.
The 2002 Florida Constitution Revision Commission submitted a revision to the Florida Constitution, amending Article IV, Section IV to reduce the Cabinet from six elected officials to three. The voters approved the changes and it became effective January 7, 2003; after this time, the commissioner of education became an appointed position and ...
The new pay scale was released at the end of 2013, and all teachers hired before 2011 had a few months to evaluate the new pay scale for deciding if they would opt in. [32] Teachers who did not opt in were not exempt from the new evaluation system; however, their pay would not be affected by their final evaluation score.
The Florida Education Association, the statewide teachers union, counted more than 6,900 teacher job postings on Aug. 7, three days before the first day of school in most Florida districts.