{"id":1588418,"date":"2022-08-04T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1588418"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T12:47:41","slug":"florida-supports-veterans-lets-them-act-as-teachers-to-solve-teacher-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-supports-veterans-lets-them-act-as-teachers-to-solve-teacher-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Supports Veterans, Lets Them Act As Teachers To Solve Teacher Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-supports-veterans-lets-them-act-as-teachers-to-solve-teacher-shortage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1588418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a>, under the leadership of GOP Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>, is going out of its way to help military veterans with a program titled the Military Veterans Certification Pathway that would permit a four-year veteran with a minimum 2.5 GPA in college to teach in classrooms while they are initially paired with a mentor teacher.<\/p>\n<p>The state is plagued by a severe teacher shortage; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrctv.org\/blog\/florida-turns-military-veterans-fill-staggering-teacher-vacancies\">MRCTV<\/a> noted that by last week, Brevard County Public Schools listed 179 classroom teacher openings, Osceola County Public Schools 271, and Orange County Public Schools 167.<\/p>\n<p>The program is \u201ca great pathway for us to be able to have our veterans, in this veteran-friendly state, to step up to the plate,\u201d Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/florida-schools-hiring-military-veterans-teacher-vacancies-classrooms\">Fox News<\/a>, pointing out that veterans are used to time management and discipline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is important in our classrooms because we\u2019re missing some of that with today\u2019s younger generation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou give me somebody who has four years of experience as a Devil Dog over somebody who has four years of experience at Shoehorn U and I will take the Marine every day of the week and twice on Sunday,\u201d DeSantis asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother thing we did is we said, \u2018OK, how can we get more talent into our school system?\u2019 So we did a bill this past year that said if you have completed four years of active duty military and you have, I think, 60 hours of college coursework, you\u2019re eligible,\u201d he continued, as <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/543752-send-in-the-marines-ron-desantis-defends-ex-military-teachers-over-ed-majors\/\">Florida Politics<\/a> reported. \u201cIf you had a 2.5 GPA and passed whatever the tests are to pass, you get temporary certification. You can work toward your degree. But you can go in and contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis bluntly addressed critics of the idea, saying, \u201cYou\u2019ve got some people in the media or whatever who are criticizing this. You had the head of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridainsider.com\/education\/veterans-can-now-teach-in-florida-schools-without-a-degree\/\">teachers\u2019 union in Sarasota<\/a> criticize it, saying, \u2018You can\u2019t just throw any warm body into the classroom.\u2019 Well, I\u2019ll tell you something: people who have served our country are not just some \u2018warm body.\u2019 They have a lot to offer our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperienced military leaders who have mentored and educated military service members for years may have skills and experiences that can translate easily to the classroom and would be a ready-made workforce for Florida\u2019s public and charter schools and could address short and long-term workforce needs,\u201d the Florida Senate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/896\/Analyses\/2022s00896.rc.PDF\">bill analysis<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Florida, under the leadership of GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, is going out of its way to help military veterans with a program titled the Military Veterans Certification Pathway that would permit a four-year veteran with a minimum 2.5 GPA in college to teach in classrooms while they are initially paired with a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1588591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1588591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}