{"id":5199,"date":"2012-08-01T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:10:52","slug":"gerard-robinson-leaves-the-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Robinson leaves the rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson has submitted his resignation effective the end of August. The past year would have been hard on anyone in that position, appointed by the state board of education in large part because of pressure by Florida&#8217;s bull-in-a-china-shop governor Rick Scott, the same governor who pushed out Eric Smith in spring 2011. The state department of education had inherited two pressure-filled obligations at the time Robinson took over: managing the state&#8217;s Race to the Top grant and a new mandate on teacher evaluation by the state legislature, all during continued budget woes for the state, the implementation of common core state standards in English\/language arts and math, and internal pressure by the state board of education to look tough in raising various scoring thresholds in FCAT and a changing algorithm for the application of letter grades to schools.\u00a0Then came two obvious screw-ups &#8212; the FCAT writing score debacle in spring and the misapplication of the new letter-grade algorithms in summer.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to approve Robinson&#8217;s policy perspectives or management decisions to be sympathetic, and to understand why leaving after less than 18 months is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> pulling a Palin.\u00a0In other words, this past year <a href=\"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3472\">would have been a hell of a challenge<\/a> (or maybe just hell) for almost anyone in the commissioner&#8217;s office, let alone someone new to the state and managing a commuter marriage during all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson has submitted his resignation effective the end of August. The past year would have been hard on anyone in that position, appointed by the state board of education in large part because of pressure by Florida&#8217;s bull-in-a-china-shop governor Rick Scott, the same governor who pushed out Eric Smith in spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-1lR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}