{"id":147555,"date":"2023-09-22T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147555"},"modified":"2023-09-21T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T23:05:58","slug":"florida-teacher-vacancies-not-completely-being-filled-via-veteran-teacher-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147555","title":{"rendered":"Florida teacher vacancies not completely being filled via veteran teacher program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/school1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/school1-300x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/school1-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/school1-370x333.png 370w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/school1.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Florida Department of Education changed its requirements to facilitate veteran accession as certified teachers. Governor Ron DeSantis lauded veterans as having a wealth of knowledge that they could take to the classroom. The change to help veterans certify to become teachers quicker was an effort to help fill teaching vacancies in the state. However, vacancies are still waiting to be filled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From ABC Action News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Everyone needs an opportunity, and everyone needs a door open,&#8221; said Kristopher Butler, among the state&#8217;s 31 veterans teaching through the program. Butler is a former marine and is now teaching in Broward County. He&#8217;s one of two military veterans in the state&#8217;s second-largest school district to be teaching through this state program.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the other school districts with veterans teaching through the program are small to mid-size school districts. Brevard County and Lake County schools each have three active teachers through the program, the most in any single school district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems like there was a lot of fanfare around this program being a huge solution to a problem. Clearly, that&#8217;s not the case,&#8221; said Andrew Spar, head of the Florida Education Association (FEA), the state&#8217;s largest teacher&#8217;s union. For years, the FEA has called on state politicians to pump more money into public schools and teacher pay.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a boost to teacher pay last year, Florida still ranks among states that spend the least on public education, including teacher salaries, according to Education Data Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we don&#8217;t want is temporary band-aids and temporary solutions. We need a long-term solution,&#8221; Spar said.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this school year, the FEA issued a press release stating the number of teacher vacancies in Florida had reached nearly 7,000, &#8220;the worst in state history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ABC Action News provides additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/news\/state\/floridas-new-military-veteran-teacher-program-isnt-doing-much-to-fill-teacher-vacancies\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Florida Department of Education changed its requirements to facilitate veteran accession as certified &hellip; <a title=\"Florida teacher vacancies not completely being filled via veteran teacher program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147555\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida teacher vacancies not completely being filled via veteran teacher program<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}