by Lane Wright | Apr 8, 2019
Earlier this year, Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order “repealing the Common Core” standards. In practice that meant he tasked Richard Corcoran, Florida’s chief educator, with figuring out how to do that exactly. It’s not as simple as declaring Common Core...
by Lane Wright | Jan 31, 2019
Somebody literally needs to ask Governor Ron DeSantis this question: Can you give me an example of a specific standard, or maybe a few examples, that highlight the problem you’re trying to solve? My guess? He can’t. I’m not sure anyone can based on the rhetoric I hear...
by Lane Wright | Dec 21, 2018
Did you hear? Florida has just hired a fox to guard the public school henhouse and the newspapers are lamenting the impending death of “public education” in the Sunshine state. If you’re confused, or if you’re simply not so melodramatic, all they’re saying is that the...
by Sarah Rumpf | Mar 19, 2018
The National Rifle Association has already filed a lawsuit challenging Florida Senate Bill 7026, but that is not the only attack they’ll launch against the legislation: today their lobbyist Marion Hammer sent an email blasting Speaker Richard Corcoran (R-FL) for...
by Sarah Rumpf | Feb 26, 2018
Florida Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran sent an open letter to Gov. Rick Scott yesterday, signed by an additional 73 members of the Florida House, calling on Scott to suspend Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for “incompetence and dereliction of duty” related...
