ORLANDO, Fla. – Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz signed a pledge to kill Common Core if elected.

Cruz was the only one of 14 Republican presidential primary candidates at the Florida Sunshine Summit – a conservative rally put on by the state’s Republican Party – to vow, in writing, to oppose any federal efforts to mandate, impose or influence standards assessments or curriculum across the country, Sunshine State News reports.

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“As the Republican Party of Florida begins its Sunshine Summit, Senator Cruz’s pledge provides needed leadership on the critical issue of education that so impacts the many residents and students of the State of Florida,” Luz Gonzales, state coordinator for Florida Parents Against Common Core, wrote in a prepared statement.

“Florida is ground zero for the continued implementation of Common Core State Standards,” he continued. “Five of the largest 12 school districts in the United States are in the state of Florida: Miami Dade County Public Schools, Broward County Public Schools, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Orange County Public Schools and Palm Beach County Public Schools.”

Parents in states across the country have rallied against Common Core standards foisted on school districts through the U.S. Department of Education. President Obama, using financial incentives in his Race to the Top education initiative, enticed the vast majority of states to adopt the standardized curriculum with little to no input for parents or taxpayers.

In the years since, education experts and parents have repeatedly raised concerns a wide array of issues, from perceived indoctrination to convoluted math processes to inappropriate reading materials. Many folks have also criticized the standards as an ill-fitting one-size-fits-all approach that allows Washington, D.C. bureaucrats to strongly influence curriculum.

“We should repeal every word of Common Core,” Cruz, a U.S. Senator from Texas, told Floridians at an event earlier this year, according to Sunshine State News. “We should get the federal government out of the business of curriculum.”

Shark-Tank.com posted a video to YouTube in February in which Cruz talks about why he’s “passionately against Common Core.”

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Many Republican presidential candidates, with exception of the Common Core-loving Jeb Bush, have condemned Common Core, and several have vowed to abolish the Department of Education, but Cruz was the only candidate at the Florida event last weekend to commit to that promise in writing, FPACC said.

“I, Ted Cruz, pledge to the students, parents, teachers and concerned citizens of the United States of America that I will stop federal involvement in Common Core and that I will oppose any efforts by the federal government to mandate, impose or influence standards, assessments of curriculum,” according to the pledge, which was signed by Cruz and an witness.

The pledge drew applause from many anti-Common Core parents coast to coast, including a strong Cruz supporter and organizer at Stop Common Core North Carolina.

“Do not waste ones breath saying the U.S. Dept of Education is not involved in standards, materials or curriculum, because they have been and they still are. A former (U.S. Department of Education) official ADMITTED IT! For crying out loud people, WAKE UP.  This is an agency who is suing school districts in order to dictate who gets to pee in what bathroom,” A.P Dillon wrote, adding that his personal support of Cruz is not Stop Common Core North Carolina’s official position.

“This pledge comes at a time when the White House, along with the US Dept. of Education, has just come out backing ‘open source’ materials and that they will support  and ‘model transition to openly licensed educational material,’” Dillon continued. “Right now, the market is flooded with ‘common core aligned’ materials. This is a way to ensure more of the same and make sure the same things are taught everywhere.”

Dillon contends Cruz is the only candidate that been “100% consistent” in opposition to Common Core from day one, and explained what came out of a conversation with the senator in North Carolina this summer.

“I had a chance to talk with Senator Cruz face to face about it when he was in North Carolina for the NC GOP convention back in June,” Dillon wrote. “In that conversation, Cruz said he planned to go after Common Core by way of bringing down the U.S. Dept. of Education. Cruz said that …. Abolishing the Dept. of Education doesn’t mean ‘abolishing education,’ but instead returning control of education to the states.”