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Common Core Changes Head to State Board of Education

The State Board of Education will review and vote on proposed changes to the Common Core State Standards on Tuesday, ultimately deciding whether or not to pass revisions to the academic standards.

With nearly 100 proposed modifications to Common Core -- including over 50 in calculus -- the Florida Department of Education seemed to indicate in January that the changes were a sharp departure from Common Core and rebranded them as the "Florida Standards."The board, which will meet in Orlando, is expected to approve the changes as most of its members have been generally supportive of the new academic standards.

Gov. Rick Scott has been supportive of the Florida Standards,distancing the Sunshine State from Common Core, which has gathered considerable criticism over recent months.

These are Florida standards, he said at the Republican Party of Floridas annual meeting in January. Theyre not some national standards; theyre going to be Florida standards. This is our state. Were not going to have the federal government telling us how to do our education system.

Common Core has been adopted by 45 states across the country and Florida adopted the standards in 2010.

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