How $1.9 Million From the Race to the Top Grant Was Used as a Propaganda Tool For the Florida Model | Scathing Purple Musings

How $1.9 Million From the Race to the Top Grant Was Used as a Propaganda Tool For the Florida Model | Scathing Purple Musings:

How $1.9 Million From the Race to the Top Grant Was Used as a Propaganda Tool For the Florida Model

by Bob Sikes

Jeff Solochek of Gradebook calls attention to those reading scores everyone’s been bragging about for the last month.

Florida’s fourth graders are the second-best readers in the world, Gov. Rick Scott claimed during a recent discussion with black lawmakers.
That’s pretty great news, right? Well, hold on just a second.
Our friends at PolitiFact Florida investigated the claim to determine just how accurate it actually is.
While they deemed the facts of his claim are mostly correct, they said Scott stretched the truth a bit because the study doesn’t include every country – or even every state.