Florida’s Common Core hearings aren’t until next week, but the criticism has already started. In September, Gov. Rick Scott asked Florida to sever its financial ties to a consortium of states–the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC–that’sĀ developing a new assessment based on Common Core standards. At the time, Scott said […]
Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell made an interesting argument over the weekend in favor of Florida’s new Common Core English, literacy and math standards: it will hinder state leaders when they try to tinker with schools. Maxwell wrote his column as an open letter. He said he no longer trusts Florida leaders about education after […]
The Florida Department of Education will hold public hearings on Common Core State Standards in Tampa, Davie and Tallahassee on consecutive days later this month, according to an email from House Majority Leader Steve Crisafulli. Gov. Rick Scott asked the department to hold the hearings last month. Scott wants the public to present concerns about […]
Gov. Rick Scott may join House and Senate leadership in opposing a multi-state test tied to Florida’s new math, English and literacy standards and designed to mostly replace the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, according to the Times/Herald Capitol Bureau. The test, known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, […]
The chairman of the Senate education committee is asking residents to send him their questions about Florida’s new math, English and literacy standards, known as Common Core. Sen. John Legg, R-Lutz, has posted the Common Core standards to the Senate website and wants to hear questions and complaints before lawmakers return to Tallahassee next year. […]
The last time lawmakers all gathered in Tallahassee, the opposition to Florida’s new math and English standards was just getting started. But opponents of the standards, known as Common Core, have turned up the heat throughout the spring and summer. The opposition hails from the political right and the political left, and their concerns range […]
We caught up with House Speaker Will Weatherford at yesterday’s meeting of the Suncoast Tiger Bay civic club. Weatherford, a Wesley Chapel Republican, took questions about Obamacare, Stand Your Ground and requiring power customers to pay the cost of new nuclear plants up front. We asked him about the expected legislative debate over Common Core […]
Common Core State Standards, 140 characters at a time. The Florida Department of Education’s Twitter account is now sending out a “standard of the day” to its more than 5,700 followers. The tweets include a link to the math and English language arts standards which outline what students should know at the end of each […]
A Florida lawmaker has filed a bill that would put the implementation of Common Core education standards on hold until the the State Board of Education conducts an independent review of how much the new standards will cost and holds a public hearing in each of the state’s congressional districts. In addition, the bill would […]
Table 1 was not going to play along. The organizers of Gov. Rick Scottās education summit had broken the three-dozen attendees into groups and asked them to write āvision statementsā about the Common Core State Standards. The groups would pick and choose their favorite statements But Table 1 ā where two superintendents, the president of […]
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