Democratic Underground - Jeb hires woman fired in Minnesota for education job, pays her $152,000.

This all just keeps getting better and better.

Then she comes here and gets paid $152,000 a year to do the same thing she could not do in Minnesota? And her hubby gets a good-paying job as well. Her name is Cheri Yecke, and I posted a thread yesterday where she was mentioned. Here is that thread about Florida being the next battleground about teaching Creationism.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5460468

Here is a quote from her in the thread:

Next year, the state is scheduled for a routine review of science standards, and House Education Chairman Dennis Baxley calls it "a healthy time to have discussions of that nature." Education commissioner John Winn has refused to discuss the possibilities, other than to release a cryptic statement suggesting current standards "were written in a way that is neither inclusive nor exclusive to any one theory of human origin." Winn's new K-12 chancellor, Cheri Yecke, says she brings no agenda to change the curriculum but told a reporter she believes "God created heavens and the earth."

Well, here is what I found when a poster in the thread alerted me to the fact that she had left her job in Minnesota. Dismissed, actually. Florida just continues to astound me how we allow Jeb to do such utterly crazy things. In this case, I am just finding out about it, and I intend to get our group here to write a letter about it. I just had one printed, so I have to wait a month.

OUTRAGEOUS!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-maxwell2405nov24,0,1922638.column?coll=orl-news-col

Gov. Jeb Bush made a big splash a couple of months ago when he hired as his chancellor for K-12 education Cheri Yecke -- who had been tossed out of a similar job in Minnesota.

Making much less news was the fact that husband, Dennis, was lucky enough to land a six-figure-paying job with the state.

State officials said Wednesday that Bush's desire to land Cheri Yecke had nothing to do with the $102,000-a-year job that Dennis Yecke landed as deputy secretary in the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

"We were very lucky that her husband, who had a stellar resume, was available," Bush spokeswoman Alia Faraj said Wednesday, adding that couples with both halves working in state government's large work force is pretty common in Tallahassee.

State officials also say this quarter-million-dollar-a-year duo (Cheri Yecke makes $152,000) are obviously qualified, since both of them held similar state jobs in Minnesota.

Cheri Yecke lost her job as Minnesota's education commissioner last year, with some critics predicting that she might try to insert religion and/or conservative views into Florida's classrooms -- a claim Yecke has flatly denied.

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