Another reason to avoid teaching in FL.

[Orlandodem]

State legislature is looking to close the pension system to new employees. They're destroying the teaching profession.

Over-testing
No job protections
Cutting the pension for current employees
Cutting new public servants out of the pension
Blaming teachers for all that goes wrong
Over-testing
Marzano evaluations
VAM
Salaries based on test scores
Over-testing
Common Core

If you know a college student majoring in education tell them to change majors. If you know someone moving here to teach tell them to stay where they are.

http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/florida-gop-targets-state-retirement-system-20151123/

[iemitsu]

1. Just get out.

It's the same everywhere.

[world wide wally]

2. This was the plan Reagan and Republicans hatched in the eighties with "A Nation At Risk"

The plan has been to discredit Public Education and make vouchers universal as another tax break for the wealthy and religious right.
The entire "crisis in education" was manufactured and this is how they have gone about it:
Step #1: Attack the teachers and make them as miserable as possible so they quit.

[clif]

3. SAT scores

My wife reached burnout in Corporate World. We had met all of our financial goals ( before being Bushed, but I digress) I ask her what she really wanted to do. She said she had always wanted to teach the thing she loved most in the world "READING". She has all the right degrees from good schools.
In Bay Co FL. Teachers bonuses are given to those who scored in the top 20% on their SAT scores. Seeing they didn't even give percentages in the 70's. That leaves new teachers with a $ 8 too 10 K bonus and Master teachers with ZERO. Jeb Bush's Republican logic at it's best.