Event Brief
FDOE rewrites Florida K-12 science standards
By The BriefBrief · Sources (1)
Filed: Sep 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM ET
Summary: Florida education leaders are reconsidering the state’s B.E.S.T. Science Standards after the Florida Department of Education moved to rewrite them to remove “ideology” from classroom science. The effort frames the standards as beginning with “wonder,” and signals changes to how K-12 science content will be taught statewide.
WHO: Florida Department of Education; Florida education leaders
WHAT: FDOE is rewriting Florida’s K-12 science standards and reconsidering the B.E.S.T. Science Standards to take “ideology” out of the classroom.
WHEN: Sep 29, 2026 at 11:58 AM ET
WHERE: Florida
WHY: Education leaders said the standards should take “ideology out of the classroom,” emphasizing that “Science begins in wonder, not in ideology.”
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