Gov. Ron DeSantis seeks to ditch Common Core, find new academic standards for public schools

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Gov. Ron DeSantis, fulfilling a key education campaign promise, said he would issue an executive order “eliminating Common Core and the vestiges of Common Core” from Florida’s public schools.

Common Core is a set of standards spelling out what children should learn in language arts and math classes, from kindergarten to 12th grade. Florida, with Republicans in charge, first adopted Common Core in 2010 and then again in 2014, after making tweaks and renaming them Florida Standards.

But the academic benchmarks have been controversial here and across the country, dividing some Republicans. Former Gov. Jeb Bush championed them, for example, but DeSantis, a Republican from northwest Florida, ran for office promising to get rid of them, buoying Common Core opponents.

They argued Common Core represented the federal government’s illegal intrusion into public education, a push toward even more high-stakes testing and a move toward developmentally inappropriate lessons, among other problems. The federal government encouraged states to adopt the standards with its Race to the Top grant, a program that awarded Florida $700 million in federal money in 2010.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/school-zone/os-ne-desantis-common-core-florida-20190131-story.html

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1. I wrote several of the Common Core language arts lessons....

one of the most rewarding tasks in my role as an educational consultant of 35 years standing. Sorry DeSantis....you are ignorant when it comes to anything related to education. You will make Florida students ranked number 50 in educational stats.