Employees At Florida School Propose Plan For Teaching Six Out Of Six Periods

Jeff Solochek wrote in the St. Petersburg Times (7/27) "Gradebook" blog that Pasco County, Florida, schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has "proposed requiring all secondary-level teachers [to] teach six periods of six." School employees this week "put forth an offer to seek volunteer middle and high school teachers to teach all six periods of the day." The offer would give "those who teach an extra period of a course they already teach would get 15 percent of their salary. Those who have to prepare a new course would make 20 percent more." Pasco schools' director of employee relations, Kevin Shibley, said that he "would likely make a counter proposal."