As teachers struggle with the area’s rising cost of living, the union leaders representing them want to know the amount the Pinellas County School District is spending on classroom software, and whether there's money that could instead be going to retain teachers.
In Pinellas County, four school board seats are up for grabs in the upcoming primary election and the candidates could have a huge impact on the more than 100,000 kids in the district.
School districts statewide are working to fill 9,000 teacher vacancies with just weeks until the start of the school year, according to numbers from the Florida Education Association (FEA).