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Gov. Rick Scott has asked that Florida give up its duties managing PARCC's money.
Yesterday stating his desire that Florida ends its role handling the money for a consortium of states developing a new test tied to Common Core State Standards.
The test is known as the .
It鈥檚 the first action on education Scott has taken since his .
Summit participants had a chance to sign off on a version of Scott鈥檚 executive order condemning PARCC and declined.
That language appeared the first afternoon as the third of seven 鈥済uiding principles鈥� as a starting point for discussion. It read:
鈥淐urrently, the PARCC assessment will require an excessive amount of testing time, will be too expensive, and has been marked by overreaches from the federal government into education policy. Any assessment solution must account for these deficiencies.鈥�
But immediately those at the summit objected. ( .)
Instead, the summit settled for this more general principle which didn鈥檛 mention PARCC at all:
鈥淔lorida鈥檚 new assessment must be aligned to Florida鈥檚 new standards and should provide meaningful results in a timely manner regarding student mastery of content. It should consider testing time, comparability with other states, expense and excessive involvement by the federal government.鈥�
But here鈥檚 the :
鈥淲hereas, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments, as designed today, do not meet the needs of our students or the expectations of state leaders in their cost effectiveness, length of testing time, prescriptive computer-based testing requirements, and excessive involvement by the United States Department of Education;鈥�
Education Commissioner .
Scott and Stewart left open the possibility that PARCC could still bid to become Florida鈥檚 next assessment. Scott set forth eight bullet-point requirements for PARCC in his order. PARCC could meet all of those requirements except for 鈥渆nsures testing time is not significantly different from current assessments.鈥�
We still don鈥檛 know if a could meet the requirements in Scott鈥檚 executive order.
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