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Florida Plans to Evaluate Teachers on FCAT Scores of Students They Never Taught? « Tangerine, Florida

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Florida Plans to Evaluate Teachers on FCAT Scores of Students They Never Taught?

Call and email SENATOR STEPHEN WISE and tell him to hear SENATE BILL 1380 to stop unfair teacher evaluations!

At the request of Florida Education Association members, Senator Audrey Gibson has proposed Senate Bill 1380 and Representative Dwayne Taylor has proposed House Bill 1067. These bills would repeal an unfair requirement in SB 736 that impacts teacher evaluations, pay and job security.

The bills would remove provisions in the law that require that non-FCAT teachers’ and non-classroom