Jesse SchecknerDecember 17, 2024
The average teacher pay during the 2022-23 term was $53,098 — the second-lowest among all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Tag: public school funding
Jesse SchecknerDecember 17, 2024
Anne GeggisApril 20, 2023
7min0
The change in charter school funding gets final committee OK.
Drew WilsonAugust 22, 2018
5min398
Tampa Democrat Mike Alvarez said Wednesday that if he’s elected to House District 62, he has a plan to bring much-needed construction and maintenance funding to public schools. The proposed plan, titled the “Make Schools Student Ready Act,” would boost the funding schools receive from the Public Education Capital Outlay Trust Fund, or PECO, which […]
Scott PowersMay 19, 2017
2min172
Democratic state Sen. Linda Stewart is urging Gov. Rick Scott to veto the late-passed education bill, charging its new funding formula would cut public school budgets in a non-recession year for the first time in memory. “This bill has a consequential, negative impact to our state’s school system, and not only hurt our state’s children, […]