{"id":21080,"date":"2014-01-06T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21080"},"modified":"2014-01-06T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:44:17","slug":"senate-education-chairman-legislative-session-will-focus-on-common-core-school-grades-evaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/06\/senate-education-chairman-legislative-session-will-focus-on-common-core-school-grades-evaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Education Chairman: Legislative Session Will Focus On Common Core, School Grades, Evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16765\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Sen. John Legg, R-Port Richey, says lawmakers need some advice from education commissioner Pam Stewart on Wednesday.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/02\/2-18-LeggMug.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16765\" alt=\"Sen. John Legg, R-Port Richey, says lawmakers need some advice from education commissioner Pam Stewart on Wednesday.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/02\/2-18-LeggMug.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">The Florida Senate<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John Legg, R-Port Richey, says lawmakers need some advice from education commissioner Pam Stewart on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wednesday the Florida Legislature will start in on the heavy lifting of this year&#8217;s session with regard to education policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Education Committee has asked education commissioner Pam Stewart to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/02\/whats-floridas-education-plan-lawmakers-expect-details-next-week\/\">outline the agency&#8217;s plan and update lawmakers<\/a> on where things stand with the final switch to new K-12 English language arts and math standards (scheduled for this fall), choosing a new standardized test to mostly replace the FCAT (first use scheduled for early 2015), upgrading school technology, teacher evaluations and more.<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Florida recently sat down with Legg to talk about the session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to kind of jump in to the deep end of the pool in January,&#8221; Legg said. &#8220;Those issues&#8230;will probably dominate the legislative session.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Legg said Wednesday&#8217;s meeting will be key for lawmakers setting their agenda for the upcoming session. Legg said lawmakers could plan what they will and won&#8217;t do during the session based on what Stewart says.<\/p>\n\n<p>Click to listen to the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday the Florida Legislature will start in on the heavy lifting of this year&#8217;s session with regard to education policy. The Senate Education Committee has asked education commissioner Pam Stewart to outline the agency&#8217;s plan and update lawmakers on where things stand with the final switch to new K-12 English language arts and math standards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1157,801,1106,907,1050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080"}],"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=21080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21085,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions\/21085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}