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‘One assignment away from having my full diploma:’ USF student expelled for taking part in protest days before graduation
Students at campuses across the country responded to the war in Gaza this spring by setting up encampments, including at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Teach for America is a good program but a bad fit for Florida | Letters
Teach for America coming to Hillsborough | June 30. While head of a teacher preparation program at a New York college, I worked with Teach for America for 10 years. Though an admirable organization, it is no solution for Florida’s teaching shortage; think of its “fellows” as long-term substitute teachers, not professionals who will commit long-term to our schools and children. Many join the program to get free or reduced-rate master’s degrees or to pause earlier student loans. Others think Florida may be a wonderful place to spend three or four years, then return home. Many are graduates from elite universities and have little in common with the students they will teach. They and the program are to be commended, but they are no substitute for decent salaries (not just decent starting pay) and professional respect, things our Republican legislators and governor refuse to provide.
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