{"id":19069,"date":"2013-06-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19069"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:30:01","slug":"congressman-wants-states-to-be-able-to-cut-ties-with-the-federal-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/06\/14\/congressman-wants-states-to-be-able-to-cut-ties-with-the-federal-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Wants States To Be Able To Cut Ties With The Federal Department of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Jersey Congressman Scott Garrett is behind a proposal to keep education funding at the state levels and enable states to withdraw from Common Core.<\/p><\/div>\n

A New Jersey Congressman has proposed a bill that would allow states to bypass the strings which come with federal money.<\/p>\n

During a Common Core\u00a0briefing at the Cato Institute this week<\/a>,\u00a0Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) said he would introduce the LEARN Act – Local Education Authority Returns Now. The proposal would keep education funding at the state level instead of moving it through the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to return our education policy back to local communities,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to start putting actually the students first and not anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill would also make it easier for states to rescind their support of Common Core State Standards.<\/p>\n

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Florida is one of 45 states and the District of Columbia speeding toward the full implementation of Common Core State Standards in 2014-15. T<\/a>he standards focus on fewer subjects and aim to get more students college and career ready.<\/p>\n

But there’s a push back from opponents<\/a> who see Common Core as nothing more than government intrusion. Some states are having second thoughts.<\/p>\n

Garrett’s website says the LEARN Act \u201cseeks to empower state and local governments<\/a> by cutting the ties of federal mandates and bringing taxpayer money back\u201d to the states.<\/p>\n

He said states have been too willing to accept federal mandates in exchange for federal money.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in a handful of states are considering a repeal or delay<\/a> in rolling out Common Core. Their reasons include federal involvement, cost of implementation, and effectiveness of the new standards.<\/p>\n

Florida, however, is pressing ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2013 Common Core State Standards Summer Institutes<\/a> begin next week. The Florida Department of Education is hosting seven training institutes around the state to get classroom instructors ready for a new way of teaching.<\/p>\n

More than 1,500 teachers and administrators will attend the agency’s first two-day training institute at Gulf Breeze High School in the panhandle Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey Congressman has proposed a bill that would allow states to bypass the strings which come with federal money. During a Common Core\u00a0briefing at the Cato Institute this week,\u00a0Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) said he would introduce the LEARN Act – Local Education Authority Returns Now. The proposal would keep education funding at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":19070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1036,819,1039,670],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19069"}],"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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19069"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19087,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19069\/revisions\/19087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}