Carrollwood Teachers Getting Raises?
The Florida Legislature has passed a merit-based pay raise that will go into effect next year.
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott’s promise to give Carrollwood area teachers a raise is coming to fruition, but it’ll be a little later than hoped. Both the House and Senate gave a green light to a measure that would give Florida teachers a raise, but instead of being across-the-board, the proposal calls for merit-based raises. And, while Scott wanted to see those raises go into effect in 2013, they won’t be happening until June 2014, according to The Tampa Tribune. Under the Legislature’s plan, teachers who are ranked “effective” will be eligible for raises of $2,500. Teachers who are deemed “highly effective” will get $3,500, the Tribune says. Scott proposed the statewide raise in January. Hillsborough County teachers are among the only in …
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Magnus Thunderson
6:55 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Merit raises sound good and do work in certain fields such as sales were the customer are random and equal but in teaching as kids range from dirt poor to rich and accelerated to special needs and each school year can like a fresh draw of cards and we all know we be deal bad hands quite a few times in a row. Also the fact that principal often have their favorite teachers and there and less cared … more ›