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In a press release about the $1.25 billion increase in teacher pay, the DeSantis administration highlighted the over $4 billion the state has allocated to salaries since 2019. “Florida’s ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis is greeted by senators and representatives as he arrives to give the State of the State Address on opening day of the 2024 Florida Legislative Session on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.
The Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 was a strike action in the US state of Florida in February and March 1968 by teachers and other education workers belonging to the Florida Education Association (FEA). The cause of the strike was under-funding of the state's educational system at a time when attendance was rising sharply, combined ...
On February 24, 2022, the Florida House of Representatives passed the Parental Rights in Education Act with 69 in favor and 47 against. [15] Commonly referred to as the "Don't Say Gay" bill by its opponents, it prevents public schools from holding discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity, stating that lessons "may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is ...
Pandemic-era federal funding to boost childcare in Miami s running dry | Opinion
However, the state has become increasingly red since the late 2010s, as in 2018, Republicans captured both Senate seats in the state for the first time since Reconstruction. [6] In 2020, Florida voted 7.8 points right of the nation as a whole, the furthest it has voted from the nation since 1988, and it was the first election since 1992 that ...
But what’s interesting about the state’s latest scandal, involving the Florida Department of Education, is the similarities it has Central Florida’s biggest recent scandal — the Joel ...
In 2021 the Florida Board of Education prohibited teaching about critical race theory or the 1619 Project in public schools. [1]In April 2023, the Board of Education extended the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, often called the "Don't Say Gay" Act, from covering kindergarten to third grade students into covering the entire range of kindergarten to twelfth grade.