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No longer the case. Public school contracts in Florida are evaluated on a year to year basis. Meaning, if you're a poor teacher, you can get fired now. While technically, you could have the opportunity to be granted significant raises at a private/charter school if the school's owner deems...

There certainly are outliers but on average charter school teachers make almost 10 grand less a year in the US than public school teachers. Public school teachers have unions and are given significant raises for completing masters programs.

Do you teach in Florida? More specifically, Dade or Broward county?

It's also a myth that private/charter schools do better than public schools. It's really a socio-economic issue. The private/charter schools in more well-off areas tend to do very well. The charter schools in lower income areas (pretty much 100% funded by vouchers) tend to fail quite often. Just...

Where are you getting your information then? I know three former private/charter school teachers and a current charter school principal. All of the teachers left their charter school jobs for public school jobs because the salary was significantly higher. My charter school principal friend not...

In Florida, the lotto money did go to public schools. However, whatever extra money the lotto brought in was cut out of the budget so schools essentially had the exact same budget before and after the lotto was introduced

This. Private and Charter schools are FOR PROFIT enterprises. That means that owners can save money by cutting corners and paying the staff significantly less than public school staffs make. Essentially, if you're teaching at a charter school, it's because you couldn't get a public school job...