House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2155

Teachers 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Rep. Les Miller

Organization:

Tampa-District # 59

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Teachers 2000

Date Submitted:

01/28/2000 1:55:16 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Lesley Miller

Service Area:

County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Hillsborough

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Hillsborough County School District

Contact:

Dr. Earl J. Lennard

 

901 E. Kennedy Blvd

Contact Phone:

(813) 272-4050

 

 

Tampa, FL 33602

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provide Florida's public schools with an additional 10,000 teachers over the next four years to reduce overcrowding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

This will improve student to teacher ratios and allow teachers to spend more one-on-one time with students.  Currently, an additional 8,300 teachers are needed to meet the 1998 legislatively enacted goal of one teacher to every 20 students in grades K-3 across the state.  An additional 1,700 teachers in the state's failing schools will help lift them up and ensure all children have a quality public education.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

If not adopted, our children will continue to be placed in over-crowded classrooms without sufficient contact with good teachers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$35,179,646

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$35,179,646

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Yes

 

 

Amount:

$35,179,646

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purpose for future year funding:

 

Recurring Operations

 

 

Will this be an annual request?

 

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

Yes

 

 

Agency:

Education, Department Of, And Commissioner Of Education

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

Education Commission of the States 199 Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

No