Their chief target: legislation that would make it easier to fire teachers and base part of their salaries on test scores.
``We just couldn't sit at home and do nothing while our profession is being attacked,'' said Carole Robinson, a biology teacher at Dunedin High School who is driving to Tallahassee for the rally. ``There is just no collaboration going on. We were shut out of the process.''
Teachers are focusing their energy on House members and Gov. Charlie Crist, whom they see as their last line of defense on SB 6, the education bill that passed the Senate and is pending in the House.
Crist's office received 700 calls on the issue last week. House lawmakers have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails and thousands of phone calls, according to Speaker Larry Cretul's office.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/31/1555936/teachers-stage-massive-protest.html#ixzz0k3TnzB1b
Florida Teachers and Others
engaged in a massive protest against the proposed "reforms" which seek to destroy teacher protections in that state:
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