Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized New York’s standardized test performance numbers and mocked their constant lockdown procedures of schools during Covid.
DeSantis came across as controversial, when he decided to reopen classrooms earlier than most other states during the pandemic, arguing that their continued closure would end up hindering the children’s learning.
The Republican cited new results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress as an affirmation of his approach.
“In Florida our 4th grade students rank #3 in Reading and #4 in Math, achieving top 4 in both English and Math for the first time in state history, while lockdown California and New York aren’t even in the top 30,” DeSantis said in a statement.
The NAEP exams are the only standardized tests administered nationally, and allow for state to state comparisons.
DeSantis said, “Our test scores are thanks to going back to an in-person learning environment.”
“We insisted on keeping schools open and guaranteed in-person learning in 2020 because we knew there would be widespread harm to our students if students were locked out,” DeSantis said. “Today’s results once again prove that we made the right decision.”
Schools reopened in Florida for full-time in-person learning in August 2020. Meanwhile, other states waiting as long as a year to make them fully operational.
While Florida’s 4th graders shined, 8th grade scores in both math and reading remained behind New York. Officials noted that their national rankings improved since 2019 in the older group, moving up to 32nd math and 21st in reading.
The Florida Department of Education asserted that racial education gaps narrowed since 2019, highlighting that its Hispanic students scored in the top 5 for average scores across all categories.
So the question remains, are Democratic states trying to keep our kids dumbed down? Especially, now with the migration issue in NYC, as classes are dumbing down criteria to accommodate non-english speaking migrant students in their schools.
He’s right, the Democrats just deny, they’re wrong on every issue, their response, LIe, Deny and accuse all Republican’s as racist. If your’e a Democrat, how do you sleep at night. Unless your’e plan is to destroy our country.
When you have the PLACEMENT president lying about everything that comes out of his mouth no wonder the others just follow. They know that MSM will back them regardless.