The jig is up on education bureaucrats in Florida. It’s not bad enough that taxpayers have been bombarded with television commercials in a pathetic attempt to sell “Common Core,” or manipulated with the condescending semantics of changing the name to the “Florida Standards.” Now we learn the primary test to evaluate the competency of children and teachers in Florida is being created by an organization that has, at its core, a social justice agenda. The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been contracted by the state to write the new “Florida “Core” Standards Test” to replace the FCAT. The reason this is disturbing is simple: those who write the test set the curriculum; and any focus other than reading, writing, and math has no place in our schools. AIR, a progressive nonprofit “think tank” located in Washington D.C., is focused on far more than evaluating whether or not children are literate. Their...(Read Full Post)