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<\/p>\nBy: Ned Dean<\/p>\n
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(Florida Department of Education and Education Data Initiative)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (Florida Department of Education)<\/span><\/p>\n (Florida Department of Education)<\/span><\/p>\n Other Information \u2139\ufe0f<\/strong><\/p>\n The lack of funding for Florida Schools is a main reason there is so much inequality in the state. First off, Florida consistently ranks in the bottom 25%<\/strong> of states when it comes to average teacher salaries. Paying your teachers such a low amount has a ripple effect of consequences. Not only will there be less interest in joining the profession oftentimes teachers will be less interested and engaged in the material they are teaching, causing the quality of schooling to decrease. Florida also ranks near the bottom when it comes to per-pupil expenditure. In a study done by Education Next they found that \u201con average, a $1000<\/strong> reduction in per-pupil spending increases the score gap between black and white students by roughly 6%.<\/strong>\u201d The lack of funding Florida gives to its schools decreases the quality of schooling and increases the inequality gap between its students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One area Florida is often praised for its large amount of funding is its voucher programs. As stated previously, Florida has 5<\/strong> school voucher programs that spent $1.3<\/strong> billion to pay for 172<\/strong> thousand students. However, when people began to dive deeper into these vouchers and see specifically where the money went, they found that many of the participating schools have policies that discriminate against LGBTQ students (Washington Post). So even though Governor Desantis says he is making opportunities for more students with his expansion of the voucher programs, he is at the same time taking away opportunities for other students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Discrimination against LBGTQ students and students of color isn’t a thing of the past for Florida either. Recently they have been in the news after banning school books that contain information on critical race theory or other concepts that Governor Desantis calls \u201cwoke indoctrination\u201d (The New York Times).\u00a0 Counties have now begun submitting various books from their schools they believe should be put up for review. More specifically, in Polk County, 16<\/strong> books were put up for review some of which were titled: Two Boys Kissing, More Happy Than Not, and Real Live Boyfriends. It was even the case that some math textbooks were put up for review when they contained problems about the gender pay gap and LBGTQ celebrities such as Megan Rapinoe (The New York Times).<\/span><\/p>\n The banning of this language in books comes not long after the singing of the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay Bill\u201d and critics believe this is just another step in Governor Desantis’s culture war. Governor Desantis was quoted as saying \u201cMath is about getting the right answer, not about how you feel about the problem.\u201d One of the many problems this arises is a vacancy of jobs in the Florida schools. One spokesman stated that there are over 9,000<\/strong> teacher vacancies and major bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and custodian shortages. Later they say \u201c<\/span>these kinds of antics and political theater going on over these textbooks is exactly what\u2019s driving people out of the profession\u201d (The Guardian). The quality of education Florida is forfeiting by bringing politics into these important decisions is going to prove to be detrimental.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Florida Education By: Ned Dean Basic Information 2.9 million students attend Florida Public Schools 380 thousand students attend Florida Private Schools 340 thousand students attend 687 Florida Charter Schools Florida Public Schools have a budget of $28 Billion ???? The average per-pupil expenditure is $9,5000… $3124 less than the national average High – 37k \u2192 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1101-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Student Demographics<\/h5>\n
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Teacher Data\u00a0 ????\u200d????????\u200d????<\/h5>\n
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<\/p>\nData Analysis<\/h5>\n
Current News\u00a0 ????<\/h5>\n
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<\/p>\nWorks Cited\u00a0 ????<\/h5>\n
https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/12Fp9H-ixoWsPe4ny4swqOB6h19wfdZ2rvsroUj5OKE8\/edit<\/a><\/h5>\n