Dive Brief:
- Florida education officials have unveiled 98 changes they propose to make to the Common Core standards, dubbing them the "Florida Standards."
- Among the proposed changes is requiring students to learn how to write in cursive.
- Schools in Florida are already transitioning to working under the Common Core standards; these changes would be considered at a meeting in February.
Dive Insight:
The suggestions are characterized as "additions and minor tweaks," but with 98 of them, even minor tweaks could add up to something substantial. Florida is not the only state fighting for cursive to be included, but that's hardly the most dramatic change; new calculus standards are also being proposed.
