Stasi Kamoutsas, Florida's Education Commission, spent much of his Tuesday, March 31st talk before the Capital Tiger Bay Club criticizing the state's teachers unions. After noting that Governor DeSantis and the Legislature had provided $6 billion for teachers' salary increases over the past 8 years, there seemed to be a disconnect. He laid the blame on the state's teachers' unions.
"I saw that teachers were not getting paid in a timely fashion. They not only hold up teacher pay, but they have wasted their members' dues to push their own political agenda. They have received exclusive bargaining authority with little support and they have stood in the way of teachers receiving their pay increases like I said."
Kamoutsas says the most recent lawmaking session passed several bills in support of education, such as extending the school guardian program to the state's colleges and universities. That trains and arms school staff to respond in shooting incidents.
