Obama's education hero Jeb Bush: Leading Broad Push for Education Change With ‘Florida Formula’

With the dust settling on legislative sessions around the country, 2011 is shaping up as one of the most consequential years in memory for changes in the way schools are run. The new policies have many champions, but a little-known common denominator behind sweeping measures in nearly a dozen states is Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who has re-emerged as an adviser to governors and lawmakers, mostly Republicans, who are interested in imitating what he calls “the Florida formula” for education.

Mr. Bush, for example, has been closely involved in new education bills and laws in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah. One out of five state school superintendents have joined a group that his national foundation created, Chiefs for Change, to rally behind a common agenda.

He has hopped around the country to campaign for candidates, hold meetings and lobby for Florida-style changes. They include private-school vouchers, online courses and requiring third-graders to pass reading tests before they move up to fourth grade, rather than being pushed along with their peers — or “social promotion.”

“We’re the only state to have eliminated social promotion in the third grade in a robust way,” Mr. Bush said Tuesday in an appearance in the Capitol here, urging the Legislature’s new Republican majorities to be bold.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/education/27bush.html

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Because they don't want any workers that are smart enough to recognize that they are getting ass raped by corporate America.

I don't know how many more pictures like this of Obama it's going to take to wake people up. If you can't wake up to this, you are effectively Orwell TV zombiefied.

comes the harve$$t.

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The article mentions Obama once and indicates that Bush is collaborating almost exclusively with Republican Governors.

And so clearly, Bush is Obama's education hero.

Fail.

Sid

Or does that not count?

Oh and he did it knowing full well that Jeb's "reforms" were pretty much bullshit. They improved NCLB test scores but raised the dropout rate and lowered college entrance scores.


:shrug: Cutting funding, firing teachers, busting unions and pissing off students is not much of a way to "improve" the education system in America.