CONTACT GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT
Florida Governor Rick Scott removed the State of Florida from the Common Core consortium known as the the Partnership for Assessing Readiness for College and Career (PARCC), but we still have common core. Governor Scott is seeking feedback. There is a a news conference in Tallahassee today, but if you can not make it contact the Governor and your state legislatures today. Contact information below
If Governor Scott comes out against common core before he is forced to by the growing number of Floridians who are becoming outraged by what the Obama administration is trying to do to our schools then he will become a hero.
He will be liked by teachers, (who will be able to teach again), School boards, (who will be relevant again other than by finding ways to find a way to pay for unfunded mandates, parents (who will be know that their own children will not be brain washed to hate them), and to students (who won’t start to hate school because confusing and ambiguous questions on the high stakes, high stress assessments)
Make the point that former governor Jeb Bush is no friend. jeb Bush likes common core because he was paid 3.5 million by Bill Gate to promote it. In fact it is a safe bet that anyone who studies common core and still likes it is either a big government progressive or like Jeb Bush, paid to do so.
Direct link to Common Core Policy Analysis by the Florida Stop Common core Coalition.
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We have to keep calling and writing Rick Scott the Business guy and let him know the common core standards will dumb down our students and teach them that free market capitalism is evil. I think he knows that, but Jeb Bush and the corrupt politicians ...