The Common Core Reality that Florida Republican Senators Want to Ignore in Parent Trigger Fight
Susan Smith reminded senate republicans of something they don’t want to be reminded of during yesterday’s Senate Education Committee hearing on Parent Trigger. Florida’s implementation of Common Core Standards (CCS) has consequences which will come into play in the bill they say is just about “giving parents a seat at the table.”
Referring to a presentation at a recent Florida Council of 100 summit, Smith, the president of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, testified to the reality that CCS will increase the number of failing schools in Florida. Sponsor Kelli Stargel’s tsk-tsk that only 25 public schools would be affected by Parent Trigger is one of the half-truths she and proponents have been using. University of Illinois at Chicago professor Timothy Shannahan predicts that the PARCC tests which go with CCS implementation will have as much as a 75 percent failure rate, a number sure to produce countless more failing schools in Florida.
Stargel is either unaware of clear potential for future school failures or she purposefully is omitting the danger.
Referring to a presentation at a recent Florida Council of 100 summit, Smith, the president of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, testified to the reality that CCS will increase the number of failing schools in Florida. Sponsor Kelli Stargel’s tsk-tsk that only 25 public schools would be affected by Parent Trigger is one of the half-truths she and proponents have been using. University of Illinois at Chicago professor Timothy Shannahan predicts that the PARCC tests which go with CCS implementation will have as much as a 75 percent failure rate, a number sure to produce countless more failing schools in Florida.
Stargel is either unaware of clear potential for future school failures or she purposefully is omitting the danger.
