Common core. The idea is that this is common core that you have assessments is really not true and people have been opting out. Florida had the most meaningful accountability system in the country. We also have the greatest learning gains in the country. They go together by the way. Its a comprehensive reforms that create the rise of achievement. We were on the nape test, you cant teach for that test. We were 29th out of 31 in 1997 on the fourth grade reading test. Ten years later we were six out of 50. Florida hispanic kids do two grade levels ahead of their counterparts and equal to 33 states on this test. Low income are in the top five. Africanamerican are in the top five in these tests. The reason is that we have meaningful assessments and we have robust accountability and we have School Choice that puts pressure on a system that wouldnt otherwise move. Eliminating elements of the accountability system would get a bad result. When a third of our kids are 40 at the best or career re
Putnam County Sheriff s deputies found 61-year-old Pamela Rock on the ground when they arrived at the scene in Interlachen Lake Estates on Sunday afternoon.