Gov. DeSantis lays out plan to get rid of Common Core
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas In another reversal of former Florida Gov. Scotts policies Gov. Ron DeSantis recently ordered an end to Common Core-type educational standards in Florida. DeSantis executive order directs Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran to develop a road map for a new way to educate the sunshine states students.
DeSantis gave the order to replace Common Core-type standards with a new system that increases the quality of curriculum and places a higher emphasis on teaching civics.
One of the things we would constantly hear about on the campaign trail was a lot of frustration from parents in particular with this idea of Common Core said Gov. DeSantis.
When you complained… I heard you. I told you Id do something about it. And today we are acting to bring promises to reality.
Florida moved to a Common Core-type system under former Gov. Rick Scott a change aimed at matching standards for other students in the U.S.
State leaders made some tweaks to Common Core and re-branded it as Florida Standards but they remain very similar to Common Core.
State governors - not the federal government - developed Common Core and former Gov. Jeb Bush did everything he could to sell it as fewer higher expectations critical thinking skills benchmarked to the best in the world.
Critics of Common Core including Tea Party groups said it would take away local control and dumb down our schools.
Meanwhile many parents had trouble understanding some of the teaching methods and found it confusing particularly some of the math.
Gov. DeSantis said he and Commissioner Corcoran will seek input from teachers and parents then present a reform plan to the legislature to enact in 2020.
It wasnt the newly-minted governors only education-related announcement so far.
At a news conference at Tampa Bay Technical High School in mid-January DeSantis announced an executive order he said would help Florida students get degrees and jobs through education programs focused on in-demand skills.
