Districts miss deadline on Florida teacher pay plans

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – After Florida lawmakers put aside $800 million this 12 months to assist increase educators’ salaries, 41 college districts haven’t submitted plans to distribute the cash, in line with the state Division of Training. 

Districts confronted an Oct. 1 deadline to submit plans that additionally had been required to deal with elevating salaries for charter-school academics. As of Thursday, 19 districts had accomplished their plans, with academics both getting paid or scheduled to have their pay raised. 

A further 27 districts had not submitted plans however “have been in communication with FDOE (the Florida Division of Training) concerning negotiations” or a timeline for plans to be accomplished, in line with a report supplied Thursday to the State Board of Training. 

One other 14 districts had not submitted plans or been involved with the division. Amongst these are districts within the Central Florida counties of Flagler and Lake. The others are in Citrus, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Jefferson, Nassau, Gulf, Lee, St. Lucie, and Gadsden counties, together with the Florida Atlantic College and Florida State College lab faculties, which operate as their very own districts. 

In the meantime, 9 college districts have submitted plans which are beneath overview, and the Hillsborough County college district is at an deadlock in negotiations over distributing cash. This 12 months’s state price range included cash to proceed an effort to pay academics a minimal wage of $47,500.