What Governor Scott's executive order and letters DO accomplish-
- Acknowledge concerns about federal overreach
- Acknowledge concerns about teaching, testing and data collection of psychological attitudes and beliefs
- Withdraw Florida as fiscal agent for PARCC
- Orders an open process for selecting a new test
- Seek to gather public input about the standards via 3 hearings and public comments
- Show some willingness to change the standards to make them Florida's standards
- Rejects the official CCSS text examples
- Stop the implementation of the Common Core standards
- Prevent changes to the standards from being only superficial within the allowed 15% that Florida previously declined
- Withdraw Florida from the PARCC consortium as stated by Commissioner Stewart
- Prevent PARCC from being still considered as Florida's test as stated by Commissioner Stewart
- Prevent Florida's test from being based on national Common Core standards
- Stop or prohibit the teaching, testing and data collection of psychological attitudes & attributes
- Limit the scope of data collection on students, families, and teachers