As it is, the children in Florida are tested within an inch of their lives, and I don’t think they need any more tests.

This administration has taken the FCAT as a sole determinant. And now it will determine whether a teacher is doing a good job and we think there is so much more to it. There are...

We’re competing in a market where teachers can get better salaries by going elsewhere.

With all teachers suffering because of low pay in a state with high growth in the cost of living, particularly in housing, (Winn’s plan) is like putting a big screen TV in your living room...

The best solution is to raise salaries. Communities with teachers in low-cost housing isn’t an answer.

We kind of wished he had done a little more in a great financial year to help teachers’ salaries and low-performing schools.

We got some support from moderate Republicans, and we worked hard to talk to people about why class size is important. I think lawmakers probably thought that (class size) had more support than it did...

Until we get the base pay for all teachers up, we are going to have these recruiting and retention problems. It’s like putting a fancy porch on your house when your floor is sagging.

By measuring things simply on a standardized test, you’re never going to get a full picture of education in Florida. There’s more individual attention.

We have some real problems with it, how it came about and how it reports to measure outstanding teachers. The state decided to make the rule effective immediately and didn’t bother to ask [teachers] for...

I just think he has overreached a little bit.

The state Supreme Court has ruled that vouchers don’t fly. This federal rule is just a way around state law, and we would definitely be opposed to it.

That’s the biggest problem with the McKay Scholarship program. There’s no accountability at all. The state really needs to address this problem.

People understand that schools are a priority, and I don’t think they particularly care for the direction that some of the political leaders are taking on it.

It’s kind of like getting a big-screen TV when you have a hole in the roof of your living room. This is something we’d be willing to talk about, but we are losing teachers [too...

I think a lot of what he is proposing is intended to put a happy face on the situation without addressing the real problem.

It doesn’t look neutral to us. If we’re not understanding this and we’ve been dealing with this for months, how’s a teacher going to understand it?

We thought that it was interesting that the governor enumerated dozens of programs that he was here marketing money for and nowhere in there was there anything for salaries.

This is legislation in disguise. If it went up in a bill, it would be debated and be subject to being amended.

Teachers have no way of knowing what to do to get this bonus. Two teachers could do the exact same thing in the classroom and any number of factors could result in one being in...

He probably overreached a bit in his attempts to get vouchers through here. It’s a shame that we had to go to a six-and-a-half year court fight and now another fight in the Legislature in...

It is a real problem and a real drain on teachers, but I’ve always found that every time I get an upgrade of technology, my workload doesn’t get easier. It’s kind of a Band-aid, a...

This kind of commitment is what was needed from the start. It’s great that they’ve finally realized that they have a responsibility in the class-size amendment to fund construction.

Pay is inadequate in Florida right now.