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K-12 education content standards in Florida
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This page features the following information about who sets K-12 education content standards in Florida public schools:
- The state entity with the authority to approve K-12 education content standards.
- Whether Florida requires or recommends that local schools or districts follow the K-12 education content standards.
- The statutory or regulatory language in Florida governing the development and application of K-12 education content standards.
Background
State education officials develop content standards in order to facilitate curriculum development for public schools. This section examines the role of content standards in public instruction and the different state approaches that either require or recommend their use in public schools.
What are content standards?
Content standards are educational learning and achievement goals that state education officials either require or recommend that local schools satisfy in K-12 instruction. Content standards are not curriculum but rather aim to guide the development of what state officials view as a robust K-12 curriculum.[1]
The development of K-12 education content standards in public schools varies across the 50 states. State boards of education, state education agency leaders, and local school districts, for example, may play a role in the development and approval of content standards.
Do states recommend or require schools to follow content standards?
State statutes or regulations may require or recommend the use of K-12 education content standards in public instruction.
Some states require local schools to align curriculum with content standards by establishing content standards as a minimum course of study. Such states may also require local schools or districts to adopt content standards as part of their curriculum, or they may require students to demonstrate mastery of content standards through state assessments.
Other states recommend that local schools or districts follow state content standards.
Who sets state K-12 education content standards in Florida?
The following section provides information about the development and application of K-12 education content standards in Florida as of 2022.
The table below identifies the state entity tasked with setting content standards, whether the content standards are recommendations or requirements for local schools, and the governing statute(s). The text of the governing statute(s) is provided below the table.
| Florida K-12 education content standards | ||
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| Entity | Recommendations or requirements? | Statute or Regulation |
| Commissioner of Education | Requirements | FL Stat § 1003.41 (2022) |
| “ | (1) The state academic standards establish the core content of the curricula to be taught in the state and specify the core content knowledge and skills that K-12 public school students are expected to acquire. Standards must be rigorous and relevant and provide for the logical, sequential progression of core curricular content that incrementally increases a student’s core content knowledge and skills over time. Curricular content for all subjects must integrate critical-thinking, problem-solving, and workforce-literacy skills; communication, reading, and writing skills; mathematics skills; collaboration skills; contextual and applied-learning skills; technology-literacy skills; information and media-literacy skills; and civic-engagement skills. The standards must include distinct grade-level expectations for the core content knowledge and skills that a student is expected to have acquired by each individual grade level from kindergarten through grade 8. The standards for grades 9 through 12 may be organized by grade clusters of more than one grade level except as otherwise provided for visual and performing arts, physical education, health, and foreign language standards.[2] | ” |
See also
- K-12 education content standards in the states
- Overview of trends in K-12 curricula development
- Use of the term critical race theory (CRT)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Common Core State Standards Initiative, "What are educational standards?" accessed April 21, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
