State Education Agency (State DOE)

Florida Department of Education
Turlington Building
Suite 1514
325 West Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
Phone: (850) 245-0505
Fax: (850) 245-9667
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: http://www.fldoe.org/

State Child Care Licensing Office

Child Care Program (Florida)
State Department of Children and Families
Building Six, Room 389
1317 Winewood Boulevard
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0700
Phone: (850) 488-4900
Fax: (850) 488-9584
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/childcare/

State Director of Special Education

Clearinghouse Information Center (Florida)
State Department of Education
Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services
325 West Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
Phone: (850) 245-0477
Fax: (850) 245-0987
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: http://www.fldoe.org/ese/clerhome.asp

State Grant Agency

Office of Student Financial Assistance (Florida)
State Department of Education
Suite 70
1940 North Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32303-4759
Phone: (850) 410-5160
Toll-Free: (888) 827-2004
Fax: (850) 487-1809
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: http://www.FloridaStudentFinancialAid.org

Teacher Salary Survey 2007

Florida ranked 24th in the nation for its average teacher salary in 2006-07, according to the American
Federation of Teachers’ (AFT) Survey and Analysis of Teacher Salary Trends 2007.

The average teacher salary in Florida for the 2006-07 school year was $47,219—a 6.3 percent increase from the previous year. Florida was ranked 12th in the nation for beginning teacher salaries, at $37,600, an increase of 8.9 percent from 2005-06.

In Florida, the average salary for charter school teachers was $36,981; beginning charter school teachers’
salaries averaged $34,176.

Traditional public school teacher salaries for other states in the Southeast Region ranked as follows: Georgia was ranked 17th in the nation, at $49,836; Virginia was 20th, at $49,130; North Carolina was 27th, at $46,137; Arkansas was 32nd, at $44,493; South Carolina was 33rd, at $44,435; Tennessee was 34th, at $43,815; Kentucky was 35th, at $43,787; Alabama was 36th, at $42,389; Louisiana was 39th, at $42,816; West Virginia was 45th, at $40,534; and Mississippi was 47th, at $40,182.

California had the highest average teacher salary, at $63,640, while South Dakota reported the lowest, at
$35,378.