19 Quotes by Mark Pudlow

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.

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

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.