Pam Stewart Rejects Assertion That Common Core Test Aims to Turn Students Gay

Submitted by Anonymous on May 21, 2014 - 9:06am

After Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights, said the testing company behind Florida's new assessment has a "pro-homosexual agenda," Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart weighed in on the comments, rejecting the notion that the testing organization aims to make public school students gay.

Van Zant made the comments at an education conference in Orlando and said the American Institutes for Research test would "attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can."

Florida's about to embark on a new journey in its testing process when it hops on board with AIR, which will develop the replacement test for the FCAT.

But Stewart said while AIR works for many different clients, it's not influenced by the work it does for one client for another.

Some anti-Common Core groups have said repeatedly that the test promoted a gay agenda.

"Besides implementing the same deceptive plan discussed at the governor's summit in August, the state has chosen a company that has a significant history of promoting identification of the GLBT lifestyle for children as young as 7 years old," Florida Eagle Forum lobbyist Randy Osborne said in a Florida Stop Common Core Coalition letter.

The contents of the test, which will be administered next year, have not yet been released.

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