{"id":11069,"date":"2012-07-31T23:58:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T03:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=11069"},"modified":"2012-08-01T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:23:33","slug":"how-florida-reacted-to-education-commissioners-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/31\/how-florida-reacted-to-education-commissioners-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"How Florida Reacted To Education Commissioner&#8217;s Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11073\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/31\/how-florida-reacted-to-education-commissioners-resignation\/7-31-twitterbird\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11073\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11073\" title=\"7-31 TwitterBird\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/7-31-TwitterBird-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/7-31-TwitterBird-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/7-31-TwitterBird.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">eldh \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">News of Gerard Robinson&#39;s resignation spread quickly on Twitter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson announced Tuesday evening <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/31\/florida-education-commissioner-submits-resignation\/\">he is stepping down at the end of August.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Board of Education chairman Kathleen Shanahan <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-07-31\/news\/os-commissioner-education-resigns-20120731_1_education-commissioner-gerard-robinson-school-grades-school-districts\">told the <em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em> that Robinson was commuting to Virginia<\/a>, where his wife works as a law school professor. The strain had become too much.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson had also been criticized by school boards, educators and parents <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/14\/florida-school-board-members-say-education-commissioner-challenged-their-authority\/\">for changes to state tests and the school grading system.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gathered some of the reaction to Robinson&#8217;s surprise announcement from Twitter, after the jump. We&#8217;ll update it as more folks weigh in:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gerard Robinson announced he would step down from his post on August 31.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/storify.com\/johnroconnor\/florida-reacts-to-education-commissioner-resignati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Robinson announced he would step down from his post on August 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1019,1049,1161],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11080,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions\/11080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}