{"id":35120,"date":"2015-02-24T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=35120"},"modified":"2015-02-24T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:34:39","slug":"florida-gov-scott-signs-executive-order-officially-suspends-11th-grade-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/02\/florida-gov-scott-signs-executive-order-officially-suspends-11th-grade-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Scott Signs Executive Order Officially Suspends 11th Grade Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10248\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10248 \" title=\"Gov.-Scott2\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Gov.-Scott2-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Gov.-Scott2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Gov.-Scott2.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov Rick Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Associated Press is reporting that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is officially suspending a standardized test that the state\u2019s 11th graders were supposed to take this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Scott on Tuesday signed an executive order that directs Education Commissioner Pam Stewart to suspend the test.<\/p>\n<p>The governor last week said that there was too much testing going on in Florida\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<p>Scott has said he planned to use his executive power to stop the administration of the English language arts test for high school juniors. The test is based on new standards drawn primarily from Common Core standards.<\/p>\n<p>But some school districts said they would not suspend the test without an official order from state officials.<\/p>\n<p>Scott wants legislators to repeal the law that authorized the test, but it\u2019s not clear if that will occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is officially suspending a standardized test that the state\u2019s 11th graders were supposed to take this spring. Scott on Tuesday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}