{"id":21768,"date":"2014-04-03T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21768"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:24:48","slug":"why-police-support-common-core-standards-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/04\/03\/why-police-support-common-core-standards-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Police Support Common Core Standards In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21769\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Chief Ian Moffett of Miami-Dade County Public Schools supports the state's new standards.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_2183.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21769\" alt=\"Chief Ian Moffett of Miami-Dade County Public Schools supports the state's new standards.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_2183-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_2183-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_2183-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_2183.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Sammy Mack \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Ian Moffett of Miami-Dade County Public Schools supports the state&#39;s new standards.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Common Core standards have a new group of supporters: law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The national anti-crime group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightcrime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FCIK-FL-Common-Core1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.fightcrime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FCIK-FL-Common-Core1.pdf\">released a position paper<\/a>\u00a0in favor of Florida\u2019s new standards for English language arts and math. The group argues that assessments and higher standards can prevent crime.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the paper\u2019s summary of the connection:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida\u2019s law enforcement leaders see the Florida Standards as integral to the effort to ensure that all students are college- and career- ready, and essential if we are going to successfully prevent future crime. What works to help all our young people be employable and succeed will also work to bring down crime. That is why we in law enforcement support the Florida Standards and aligned assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can hear more from the organization and law enforcement here:<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21768-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/Juvenile_web.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/Juvenile_web.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/04\/Juvenile_web.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s Common Core standards have a new group of supporters: law enforcement. The national anti-crime group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids\u00a0released a position paper\u00a0in favor of Florida\u2019s new standards for English language arts and math. The group argues that assessments and higher standards can prevent crime. Here\u2019s the paper\u2019s summary of the connection: \u201cFlorida\u2019s law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1157,935],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21768"}],"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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21773,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21768\/revisions\/21773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}