{"id":4037,"date":"2012-01-06T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2012-01-06T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T15:56:23","slug":"lawmakers-will-revisit-law-overhauling-florida-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/06\/lawmakers-will-revisit-law-overhauling-florida-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Will Revisit Law Overhauling Florida Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4038\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Rep. Bill Proctor, R-St. Augustine, is chairman of the House education committee.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/Proctor.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4038\" title=\"Proctor\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/Proctor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Florida House of Representatives<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Bill Proctor, R-St. Augustine, is chairman of the House education committee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s big legislative education debate could also be this year&#8217;s big issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Representatives\/details.aspx?MemberId=4353\">according to the chairman<\/a> of the Florida House education committee.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Bill Proctor, R-St. Augustine,<a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/florida\/2012-01-05\/story\/bill-proctor-says-merit-pay-higher-education-reform-are-education\"> told the <em>Florida Times-Union<\/em><\/a> that a top priority was to make sure districts were making progress on a law that requires teacher evaluations, implements performance-based pay and eliminates long-term contracts, among other changes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A controversial bill that, among other things, tethered teacher pay to student performance and put an end to tenure passed last session after former Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a similar bill in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview this week, St. Augustine Republican Bill Proctor, chairman of the House Education Committee, wants to make sure the 43-page law is implemented correctly. That and tackling higher education reforms will be his committee\u2019s top two priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want to make sure things go smoothly,\u201d Proctor said of the law. \u201cThere is just so much there that I think it is incumbent upon us to make sure things go well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s largest teachers&#8217; union has <a href=\"http:\/\/feaweb.org\/sb-736-lawsuit-filed-by-fea\">challenged the law in court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Proctor said he will also focus on retooling Florida&#8217;s higher education system, calling all 11 state university presidents to a committee hearing this month. Gov. Rick Scott has said state universities should better match graduates to fields expecting job growth, particularly science, math and technology fields.<\/p>\n<p>Proctor said the committee may write a bill or just put together recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers return to Tallahassee for the Legislative session starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s big legislative education debate could also be this year&#8217;s big issue, according to the chairman of the Florida House education committee. Rep. Bill Proctor, R-St. Augustine, told the Florida Times-Union that a top priority was to make sure districts were making progress on a law that requires teacher evaluations, implements performance-based pay and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[239,1028,1047,1027,1108,1082,1015],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}