{"id":207,"date":"2007-05-10T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:07:37","slug":"world-class-standards-fizzle-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"World Class Standards fizzle out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like the idea of establishing World Class Standards (previous post here<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0fizzled out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Among the measures to die in the Senate were a plan to replace public-school standards with a “world class” curriculum and a bill to create an “ideas bank” for Floridians to make suggestions to the Legislature. Both proposals were prized entries in Rubio’s book, 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I liked this article<\/a> about the state senate picking apart the plan the house had easily passed:<\/p>\n

TALLAHASSEE — A proposal to overhaul the state’s public school curriculum with “world-class standards” won a unanimous victory Monday in the House.<\/p>\n

But, as sometimes happens in the Legislature, the Senate begged to differ.<\/p>\n

Just moments after the House vote of 113-0, senators doused the plan with skepticism.<\/p>\n

“Oh, please,” said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami, vice chairwoman of the Senate’s Pre-K-12 committee.<\/p>\n

“How do you define ‘world-class’ standards? What does that mean?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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