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Carole Gauronskas

Carole Gauronskas

Carole Gauronskas is secretary-treasurer of the Florida Education Association (FEA), the state’s largest association of professional employees. Previously, she worked as an exceptional student education (ESE) paraprofessional at Ketterlinus Elementary School in St. Augustine.

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Support staff are the backbone of Florida’s schools, but they’re ignored in the debate about teacher pay

By: - November 19, 2019

Most Floridians know all too well the needs of their public schools. More than 300,000 students started this school year without a certified teacher in their classroom. To make matters worse, all four school superintendents who testified at the House PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee Oct. 24 said they have more instructional vacancies now than at the […]