Labor Unions

Just over 5,000 Palm Beach County teachers will see their salaries move to Florida’s new starting salary of $47,500 and some 8,000 others who are making close to that or more will see a 3.5% raise under a proposed contract up for school board approval Wednesday.

Second semester has many Pinellas County teachers worried.

Duval County Public Schools teachers voted to approve a new contract which will include pay raises for thousands of early-career teachers and School Board members but leaves many veteran teachers feeling neglected.

In 1946, their fight to better the lives of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South cost them their jobs. Six years later, it cost them their lives.