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LOCAL NEWS TOUTS THE INCREASES YET DOESN'T MENTION WE'RE STILL 49TH IN THE U.S. FOR OVERALL TEACHER PAY
I have the worst fucking governor
"We think that that's important to both recruit and retain good people in the classroom," DeSantis said. 

 
We have teachers locking up their classroom libraries to avoid felony charges, a massive expansion of the school voucher program (which will hurt public schools) and a continuation of the failed "veterans as teachers" program.
That doesnt sound like retaining good people. >

As someone who has designed a veterans program, 480 sign ups is fantastic. Its likely burracratic hurdles and hiring decisions that get you down to 7 folks. 
There are many programs that have low engagement because of the buraccracy, you shouldnt discontinue them and call them failed because you couldnt create a pathway for folks the first time. >

Bureaucratic hurdles or passing that exam? I’m getting the vibe from the article that the second is an issue; it’s still something they need to study and prepare for. I sense most of the 480 were enthusiastic after the announcement but underestimated the difficulty of it and came in thinking it was a formality and that their veteran status would carry them most of the way. 
That said, I’d like to see how this progresses in the months to come. >

Teachers programs likely have a natural font of tribal knowledge on how to get through the byzantine structure of credentialing.
Veterans are definitely not all minted the same. But there are a lot of jobs you can do that are a lot easier that take a lot less dedication and that dont take as heavy training or credentialing as a military job. 
Another easy explination, again with heavy experience in this, is they have a ton of options, and most of those options are broken unworking pathways that dont lead to work. Vets apply to a lot of things and its on companys to attract the talent and onboard them if you're really looking for them. >

You can't spell bureaucratic or explanation. Why would anyone want to hire you? >

The problem doesn't lie in the unions. It lies in the fact that they are asking teachers to teach lies and they don't want to do that so teachers leave Florida in droves. >

They also want to let just about anyone become a teacher. Did you not get any college education on teaching but retired from the military? You can become a teacher in Florida. >


Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday called for another round of teacher pay hikes while taking aim at teachers' unions and calling for partisan elections and stricter term limits for school board members.

So DeSantis wants to pay teachers more especially if he can control who becomes a teacher, lol. >

We called that the Bush administration with No Child Left Behind. >


"You can't say, 'Teachers, I'm going to weaken your ability to have collective bargaining and to pay your union dues. Teachers you cannot accurately teach history. Teachers, you're under the gun and we're going to make you compete with these for-profit charter schools and give away all these vouchers to these private schools that don't require their teachers to go through the same sort of training and be certified. But here's some money. We hope you feel better,'" Driskell said.

This pretty much sums up my feelings about the situation. >

DeSantis is doing this to pry some folks out of the union as a means to weaken and ultimately kill it. His real issue is that they’re powerful enough to tell him to get fucked and he needs to hollow it out so that he can consolidate power within the Florida Department of Education.
This is a power grab and not even a very clever one. >


"What we've seen over the years is you have counties, you know, in like Southwest Florida, voted for me by like 40 points and yet they're electing people to the school board who are like totally the opposite philosophy," DeSantis said. 

DeSantis is ignoring the obvious message they're sending, which is that voters prefer more local control of their schools and want less intervention by autocrats who don't understand the community. >

Or you know know, those districts are probably jerrymandered to hell, but those same conservatives couldn't be bothered to vote for school board members. Meanwhile, concerned and involved parents are voting for what they want for their children's schools, and the people who are taking that time are... drum roll please... actually concerned with the quality of our education, and not wirh the political affiliation our local schools "should" side with.
DeathSantis is going to be an indelible stain on this country's history...