I get the picture now. Florida fills their schools with police and EMT qualified teachers.
In 2021 the State of Florida tried to end pensions for teachers.
Top ten pensions and bottom ten pensions for new teachers in the USA (click here).
April 13, 2021By Eric Mock
Brevard County - Senate Bill 84, (click here) which would change the Florida Retirement System (FRS), has passed the state Senate and is currently being looked at in the Florida House.
“And that just … it’s not fair.” Brevard County teacher Traci Stiles said of the bill.
Many of Florida’s public workers — including teachers — are qualified to receive a pension after they retire under the FRS.
But the bill excludes teachers hired after July 1, 2022 from enrolling in the system's pension plan.
However, the bill does not exclude “special risk” employees, like police and firefighters, from enrolling in the pension moving forward.
Stiles has worked in Brevard County Schools and paid into the fund for more than 18 years.
If no new teachers are paying into the fund starting next year, she worries there won’t be enough when it’s her turn to retire.
“So then 10 years from now when I retire, there probably won’t be the funding to pay for it,” she said....
According to the record of the bill it died in the House Committee (click here). But, currently Florida is suffering a shortage of teachers. I can understand why when the state does virtually nothing to control the guns flowing into the state and sold to nearly anyone that wants one.
But, the Governor is modifying the requirements for teachers to allow police and emergency workers to teach instead of working in their field.
Ron DeSantis is proof that extremist administrations are trouble. It won't be long that the police turned teacher will be asked to be armed in the classroom.
By Joseph Michalitsianos
...The governor (click here) also indicated he would be waiving exam fees for first responders and law enforcement for the certification necessary for teaching, just as he had done for military veterans.
DeSantis is a vocal supporter of law enforcement officers and has invoked hiring bonuses as a way to inspire more people to join police departments.
He also said people can take advantage of both incentives in Florida by first joining a local police department and then applying to become a teacher.
While the Florida Department of Education estimated in February they would need to fill approximately 9,000 vacant teacher positions, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity found 5,837 open teaching positions online in June, up 53 percent from June of 2021....
