Florida Governor
Rick Scott issued an executive order Monday rejecting the Common Core educational initiative adopted in 2010 by the
Florida State Board of Education (BOE) and endorsed by former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foundation
for Florida’s Future as a “Federal government intrusion” into his state’s right
to set its own academic standards.
“The Federal
government has no constitutional authority to unilaterally set academic
standards for Florida, nor any authority to unilaterally direct local school
board decisions on curriculum and instruction,” Scott’s executive order stated.
“Floridians will
not accept Federal government intrusion into the academic standards that are
taught to our students in our classrooms and will not tolerate the Federal
government using such standards to coerce policy decisions at the state or
local level,” it continued. -
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