Byron Donalds Florida education plan<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Donalds\u2019 plan calls for every public school student in the state to build a unique, personalized roadmap starting in sixth grade. The individual curriculums would be customized to compile relevant classroom credits and real-world working experience based on a child’s specific career goals.<\/p>\n
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In Republican politics<\/a>, there was seldom an applause line as big as saying you wanted to get rid of common core.<\/p>\n “Common core, very bad, you have got to educate your children locally,” President Donald Trump said during his 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n Byron Donalds\u2019 wife, Erika, built the early part of her political career on ending common core in Florida.<\/p>\n Now that Donalds is running for governor, he says his education plan is the opposite of the now-despised educational relic.<\/p>\n “Parents are the ones who are at the head of the table in Florida,” Donalds said.<\/p>\n Personalized student roadmaps<\/p>\n What we know<\/p>\n Donalds wants individualized plans for each child once they hit sixth grade. They would map their progress towards a potential career.<\/p>\n Curriculums would be cultivated in a way that would help compile relevant credits or real-world experience.<\/p>\n Under the framework, these individualized roadmaps are flexible and can be modified over time as a student’s personal interests change.<\/p>\n “What this is, is a bottom-up approach,” Donalds said. “You’re having parents working with the schools to figure out what’s the pathway to success for their child. Whatever that means for that child, we all know there’s multiple ways to be successful in life.”<\/p>\n GOP primary race and political stakes<\/p>\n Dig deeper<\/p>\n Among others, Donalds is battling Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and former House Speaker Paul Renner in the Aug. 18 Republican primary.<\/p>\n Thanks in part to a Trump endorsement, Donalds has held commanding leads in recent polls.<\/p>\n “We’ve always known that between June and the middle of July is where this race really gets decided,” Donalds said.<\/p>\n Education funding questions and property tax debate<\/p>\n On the ways education is funded, Donalds was asked about Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 push to cut property taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ce65f22d9712ee81e97755caf4ed371f.jpeg\"\/)
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