{"id":11099,"date":"2012-08-01T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:39:28","slug":"read-florida-education-commissioners-resignation-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/01\/read-florida-education-commissioners-resignation-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The Florida Education Commissioner&#8217;s Resignation Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_683\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 133px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/12\/what-should-the-commish-write-about\/gerardrobinson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-683\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"gerardrobinson\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/gerardrobinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Florida Department of Education<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/31\/how-florida-reacted-to-education-commissioners-resignation\/\">stunned many yesterday<\/a> when he announced he was resigning at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson has held the post for only a year. His tenure was marked by a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/14\/florida-school-board-members-say-education-commissioner-challenged-their-authority\/\">growing opposition to Florida&#8217;s regimen of standardized tests<\/a> and complaints about ever-shifting state standards.<\/p>\n<p>After the jump, read the letter he submitted to Gov. Rick Scott:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/405721-7-31-robinsonresignationletter.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"7-31 RobinsonResignationLetter (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson stunned many yesterday when he announced he was resigning at the end of the month. Robinson has held the post for only a year. His tenure was marked by a growing opposition to Florida&#8217;s regimen of standardized tests and complaints about ever-shifting state standards. After the jump, read the letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1019,1049,1027],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099"}],"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=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}