The uprising against the Common Core State Standards is over, Politico reports, and Common Core opponents have lost. A handful of states have ditched Common Core, which outlines what students should know in math and language arts at the end of each grade.. Florida and another, larger, group of states have chosen not to use […]
John O’Connor / StateImpact Florida Frances S. Tucker Elementary School fifth grade teacher Yaliesperanza Salazar. Math lessons are carefully designed to match Florida’s new Common Core-based standards. Florida just completed the first year of one of the biggest experiments in U.S. education. For the first time this year, every grade in every public school used […]
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is expected to become a Republican presidential candidate Monday. Education has been a signature issue for Bush. He helped start Florida’s first charter school. He says schools and teachers should be judged on student performance. He pushed for vouchers for private schools. And he spent most of his time since […]
Common Core — it’s going to be the biggest education issue for 2016 Republican presidential candidates, right? Maybe not. Bloomberg Politics has posted video of a focus group session with Iowa Republicans. Moderator John Heileman asks the panel (about 44 seconds in) if any of them think Common Core is important. The response? Silence. Finally, […]
2014 was a big year for education in Florida. Activists in Lee County convinced the school board to ditch state testing — before the board reversed the decision a couple of days later. Florida schools pushed ahead with new Common Core-based math and language arts standards in every grade, despite rising opposition to Common Core […]
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took a first step toward becoming a 2016 presidential candidate Tuesday. And that has many asking how his position on education issues would affect both a Republican primary candidacy and, if Bush survives, a general election candidacy. Bush made education one of his top issues during his two terms as […]
The Lee County school board has reversed its decision to reject state tests, after board member Mary Fischer changed her mind. Last week the board became the first in Florida to refuse to offer state tests to its students on a 3-2 vote. The test are required by state law, and the results help determine […]
Voters turned out two leaders of the Florida School Boards Association in campaigns contested on school choice and Florida’s new math and language arts standards. But incumbents mostly won reelection across Florida Tuesday night, or advanced to a November runoff. Two-term Indian River school board member Karen Disney-Brombach was defeated by Shawn Frost and Volusia […]
The more Americans learn about Common Core, the less likely they are to support the math and language arts standards for K-12 public schools. That’s one conclusion to draw from the annual poll from Phi Delta Kappa, a professional group for educators, and polling firm Gallup. Last year, two-thirds of Americans said they had not […]
Public support for Common Core math and language arts standards dropped in the past year, and less than half of teachers now say they support the standards, according to an annual back-to-school poll Education Next. Just over half of the general public — 53 percent — said they support Common Core. That’s down from 65 […]
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