Gov. Ron DeSantis Fires Back At Reporter Over Question On National Education Association Ranking

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) held a press briefing on Monday where he was asked about the National Education Association.

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00:00Good stuff. Good day. Well, like, as I said, we will have the budget. It is all coming

00:15to a head. So we're going to bring that to conclusion. Obviously, the fiscal year doesn't

00:19start until July 1st, but we will get that get that wrapped up and you're going to end

00:25up seeing a state that's in better fiscal shape than just about any state in these United

00:32States. And that's something you should be proud of. You should feel optimistic about

00:36the future, knowing that we're a state that doesn't have an income tax, that has the lowest

00:42per capita amount of bureaucracy and government employees of any state in the country and

00:49the lowest per capita state debt of any state in the country. So that's pretty good. And

00:54I think you'll see some more along those lines. All right. We've got time for a couple

00:57of questions or two. Yes, sir.

01:01So basically, I can't hear exactly what you're saying, but I do know National Education Association

01:13is a very partisan teacher union. They are obviously going to generate things that are

01:19going to be reflective of positive views for union dominated states and negative for

01:25people that have actually beaten the teachers union like we have in Florida. But everything

01:30that's been set up here doesn't lie. Those are massive increases in teacher salaries

01:36that we've done since we've been in and off since I've been in office. Nobody has ever

01:41done more in the state of Florida over a similar period of time. And and I think Alex mentioned

01:47this is important. We can have this next budget 1.25 billion has to go to raise teacher

01:54salaries. It can't be used to anything else. But the big base student allocation that can

01:59also be used for salaries. It's not like that can't be used if the districts want to do

02:05that and do it even more. You know, they're welcome to do that. So we've never had a situation

02:10where we've done that. And as I mentioned earlier, for average minimum salary, we are

02:16number one in the entire southeastern United States, which I think is is really, really

02:21important. All right. Thanks, everybody. God bless.

Gov. Ron DeSantis Fires Back At Reporter Over Question On National Education Association Ranking

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