Summary


In January 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 19-32 directing the Commissioner of Education to comprehensively review Florida’s kindergarten through grade twelve academic standards to eliminate Common Core and return Florida to the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Resulting from the Executive Order 19-32 standards review were the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards for English Language Arts and for Mathematics. On February 12, 2020, the B.E.S.T. Standards were adopted by the State Board of Education. With the adoption of the B.E.S.T Standards, course descriptions need to be revised in order to remove the former standards and add the newly adopted B.E.S.T standards. The proposed rule amendment will adopt 56 new English Language Arts and Mathematics course descriptions that include the B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics.