Welcome to the St. Johns Education Association Website

The St Johns Education Association (SJEA) is a registered public employees union in the State of Florida established to provide its members with the programs and services essential to promoting their economic and professional welfare.  SJEA is affiliated with the leading education associations in our state and nation--the Florida Education Association (FEA), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).   The St. Johns Education Association (SJEA) was chartered by the National Education Association May 7, 1981 and as Local #7461 on September 1, 2000 by the American Federation of Teachers. 

A Call to Action on the Impact of SB 736

This message went out to our members late this week.  Please push this message to your members and use social media to help get the word out. Here it is:

We need your help in advancing the message and generating some calls to Sen. Stephen Wise. As always, please remember that any correspondence with your legislator should not be done during school time or using school equipment. Please forward the email below to your personal email in order to take action.

Call and email SEN. STEPHEN WISE and tell him to hear SENATE BILL 1380 to stop unfair teacher evaluations!

At the request of Florida Education Association members, Sen. Audrey Gibson has proposed Senate Bill 1380 and Rep. Dwayne Taylor has proposed House Bill 1067. These bills would repeal an unfair requirement in SB 736 that impacts your evaluation, pay and job security.

The bills would remove provisions in the law that require non-FCAT teachers’ and non-classroom instructional personnel performance evaluations be based in part on upon the FCAT scores.

CALL AND EMAIL SEN. STEPHEN WISE TODAY AND TELL HIM TO ALLOW SB 1380 TO BE HEARD IN HIS EDUCATION COMMITTEE

District Office: 904.381.6000

Tallahassee Office: 850.487.5027

Email Address: wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov

More than half of Florida's teachers do not have students who take the FCAT. This includes kindergarten, art, music, physical education, social studies, science, computer technology and ESE teachers.

According to SB 736, if you are a non-FCAT teacher, you would receive a performance evaluation based on test scores of students you never taught. You would be assessed in areas that have nothing to do with what you teach. Most districts do not have end of course exams or appropriate measures to determine student learning growth in these areas.

Senate Bill 1380 and House Bill 1067 would ensure that non-FCAT teachers are fairly evaluated and remove one of the punitive one-size fits all impacts of SB-736.