FEA Files Complaint Against State Board of Education on SB 736 | Scathing Purple Musings

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FEA Files Complaint Against State Board of Education on SB 736

by Bob Sikes

From Jeff Solochek in Gradebook:

The Florida Education Association is contending that the state Board of Education hasn’t created appropriate rules to do the lawmakers’ will.
“We believe they’ve written it in such a way that no one really can figure out how to comply,” Tony Demma, the FEA’s lawyer, told the Gradebook.
The State Board rule, adopted in March, doesn’t define such key criteria as “primary factor” for setting merit pay, Demma said. It also includes items that were not part of the law imposing the evaluations, he said, and it places a great deal of discretion in the hands of bureaucrats when it comes to deciding whether teachers and districts are complying.
To seek relief, the FEA has filed a complaint with the state Division of Administrative Hearings,