19 Quotes by Mark Pudlow

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    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.

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

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    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 little gimmick that he's using to sell teachers on this.

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    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?

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    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 and not fixing the hole in your roof.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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