FL Education costs per student
 

Maybe the costs per student plus graduation percentages should be considered in your comparison.

While some of your ideas are good, don’t get carried away. The above statement reflects what communist countries do to their people. Please don’t go there taking freedom away from citizens and giving the government more control.

It's pathetic considering how high property taxes are here! To me that means all the money is going to high paying administrator jobs and other wasted projects instead of in the trenches.

Don't forget, a lot of the work teachers do is on their time away from school. Lesson plan prep, grading of papers/exams, etc...

So that 185 days is misleading...

Yes, but how much do lesson plans change from year to year? Unless you are rewriting history and racist math.

But in Fla you don’t have state taxes taken out. Cost of living is so much lower then NY. Plus teachers only work 9 months out of a year. Then teachers retirement is so much better then Social security.

If teachers were allowed to just teach and take all these forced political agendas out our children would be better off. When we went to school our teachers made their own plans and not feed daily government plans to teach ideology. Our education system is horrible. We need to get rid of Dept of education and take the focus back to local school system. Get back to Basics.

That salary is for teacher in the system at least over 15 years in Suffolk County NY. Not NYC it's about the same as Florida.
What you wrote is completely correct.

There may well be a real gap, but to just compare gross dollars is highly misleading. New York is one of the highest taxing states in the U.S., Florida one of the lowest. The cost of living in Florida is lower than most of New York. It's not just the dollars you get, it's what you get with those dollars.

Love Charter schools as well as home schooling.

Good points made that teachers don't work 12 months out of the year. Yes newer teachers may have some extra time after hours preparing, but after a few years they become efficient with less after hours needed. Why not compare dollars per hour to other occupations rather than annual salaries?

Totally Correct!!
 

I could not agree with your statement more!!

These are the average teacher salaries in Pennsylvania - from 2017-18.

What is the average teacher salary in every Pa. public school district? - WHYY

Don’t get me started on the education system in this Country ! Terrible production by teachers. Poor to no accountability. Tremendous hours and benefits. Now you don’t need any certificates to teach, in many places. It has become a social program with food, child care, sports, useless programs and at great expense to us all! Look at your yearly tax bill and the schools eat up 40% of all. Not to count Federal monies, State monies and a series of other funding sources. Teacher unions will tell you a huge false narrative. Our education system is a failure……… oh YES, WHY DO OUR STUDENTS RATE SO LOW WORLDWIDE?

You can't even begin to compare FL to NY. The cost of living in NY is through the roof so $90,000 doesn't go far enough as to what $49,000 would in FL. If you really compare both, the FL salary would be better than New York's, PLUS you are only stating the beginning salary for teachers new coming into the system. Once they have a few years in, they are making good money for only working 9 months. That gives them either the summer off for a nice vacation or they can work other jobs if they need to just like the rest of Americans.

Housing is NOT MUCH cheaper in The Villages, FL! If you compare homes in NY (which generally have an attic, a basement and a good size yard) to a house you get here with the same square footage they are pretty much equivalent.