Florida Education Association

But education leaders in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties fear voters may confuse those property tax renewal referendums with Amendment 3, a controversial ballot measure that would reduce property taxes used to fund public services.

Florida already ranks dead last in the country for average teacher pay, according to the Florida Education Association.

And officials, including Palm Beach County School Superintendent, have warned that if the referendum does not pass, it could amount to a doomsday scenario for the district.

Do you have questions about the renewal referendums in your county? Call us at 800-743-WLRN.

If we continue this pattern of, uh, the same amount of revenue, yet costs continue to, to increase, um, you know, before long we're gonna cut ourself to death.

Florida Education Association President Andrew Spar says Leon County is not the only community looking for taxpayer support.

Yeah, look, almost, almost all of these referendum go towards teachers and staff pay.

Um, and we have referendum in, I think about now half of the counties, if not a little bit more than half of the counties, uh, in the state of Florida.