House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2974

10,000 Teachers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Dennis Smith

Organization:

Orange County Public Schools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

10,000 Teachers

Date Submitted:

01/31/2000 8:04:06 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Alzo Reddick

Service Area:

County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Orange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Orange County Public Schools

Contact:

Dennis Smith

 

445 W. Amelia Street

Contact Phone:

(407) 317-3200

 

 

Orlando 32801

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 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:

$11,023,220

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$93,238,326

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Yes

 

 

Amount:

$11,023,220

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purpose for future year funding:

 

Recurring Operations

 

 

Will this be an annual request?

 

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

No

 

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

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

Section 236.687, F.S. and FL  DOE Classroom Study, October 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Florida House of Representives  unanimously approved legislative goals for class size.

 

Meeting Date:

04/30/1998