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The state added over a thousand jobs in private K-12 education while losing more than 5,000 public school jobs in the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The latest labor data shows a bump in Florida's education sector.
Over the past year, the state added 36,400 jobs, up 2.3%, in the education and health services industry, according to data released in May by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But the growth is not in public schools.
The data shows that while the state added 1,400 jobs, an increase of 1.6%, in private schools, local government education services lost 5,600 jobs, a decrease of 1.6%.
"This looks like a substitution effect, it's crazy," said Ron Hetrick, the principal economist at job market analysis firm Lightcast.
https://www.wusf.org/education/2026-06-17/florida-adds-education-jobs-data-shows-theyre-not-in-public-schools
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,399 posts)"When the private sector is being given basically a blank check with no strings attached to it to do whatever, and however, I think that's why we're seeing that uptick," he said.
It costs Florida $4 billion every year to support private education vouchers, according to a report from the Florida Policy Institute. The allocation of public taxpayer dollars drains money from neighborhood public schools to support private and home-school students, the report found.
Lovie777
(24,338 posts)private school teachers get paid less with a few benefits. Red states are already have issues with vouchers.
shithole and comrades are dismantling Department of Education and trust me, monies for vouchers won't be enough.
Meanwhile, when the grown ups that care and are qualified will be able to repair the Department of Education once republicans are out of the federal government, i.e. WH, cabinet, administration.
Baitball Blogger
(52,854 posts)but, something like the private vouchers will require an organization more powerful like the ACLU.