Gov. Rick Scott's recent pledge to give every K-12th grade public school teacher in Florida a $2,500 raise has prompted questions from state lawmakers.
"The choice is whether it's an across the board thing that that the governor proposed, or performance oriented," Clearwater area state Sen. Jack Latvala said to Pinellas County School Board Superintendent Mike Grego on Monday in Largo."What's the mechanism in place for performance evaluations? Would that be a good vehicle?"
The question arose after Grego was given an opportunity to address Latvala and the entire Pinellas County legislative delegation at their annual meeting with the community, in advance of this year's legislative session at the Pinellas Education Foundation.
This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2013.