What they are not telling you
about HB 7189 and SB 6:
- It requires a 5% “hold back” in funding for schools that goes into effect immediately. This “hold back” for the next three years will be used to develop hundreds of new tests and then used to pay the $900 million “performance fund” in 2014.\
- A 5% hold back in some districts means a 9% reduction in available salary dollars.
- Florida already has a differentiated pay system that pays teachers in challenged schools more. Florida statute already requires that performance data be part of every teacher’s evaluation.
- This plan does not only punish “bad teachers”, but ALL of Florida’s teachers will be assigned, compensated, certified and terminated based on test scores.
- HB 7189 says that ALL teachers could lose their professional license if their students don’t test well based on a learning gains model that hasn’t been validated, piloted or created.
The bill threatens to push experienced teachers out of the classroom and place students in classrooms with teachers of little experience.
READ THE BILLS
See the Senate bill:
See the House Bill – HB 7189:
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=44566&SessionId=64
Educators across the State have been phoning and writing their legislators to tell them to vote “NO” on SB 6 and HB 7189, bills that are an assault on public education and public educators. In recent days, Republican members of each chamber have ramped up their disinformation campaign. Educators calling and writing to oppose this legislation have been given responses that contain errors, distortions and misinformation.
Read the bills. Get the facts.
Call and e-mail: the Governor, House Speaker Cretul, Senate President Atwater, your local House member AND your State Senator today!
Response to SB 6 Supporters | SB6/HB 7189 Side by Side Comparison (3/31/10)