School employee unions siphon untold millions from school budgets
Florida’s State Board of Education is pressuring Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers to increase K-12 spending by 1.88 percent per student, under the faulty assumption that the state’s public education system is underfunded.
The real problem facing Florida’s public schools is that too many K-12 [...]
Merit pay, accountability acknowledge that quality teachers are essential to good schools
Cheers to Gov. Rick Scott for signing into law a merit pay bill that treats teachers as the true professionals they are, instead of the interchangeable and indistinguishable workers the teacher unions make them out to be.
It is widely known that good [...]
Congratulations to Florida Gov. Rick Scott for having the wisdom to decline an invitation to attend last week’s “education reform” conference in Hillsborough that involved American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, as well as Florida union officials.
Gov. Scott seems to understand that the teacher unions have absolutely nothing positive to add to his [...]
