Tag Archives: Jeb Bush

IRS Targeting, the Atlanta Cheating Scandal and the Bush-Rhee High-Stakes Test Model

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

Imagine for a minute that the opposite is true and that the United States abruptly switched from a flat tax to the federal tax code we have now? Frightening huh? Yet this is essentially what the nation’s two top education policy-makers … Continue reading →

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Debriefing Parent Trigger’s Defeat in the Florida Senate

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Perhaps Senator Bill Montford said it best in this quote he gave Palm Beach Post reporter Dara Kam: Sen. Bill Montford, a Tallahassee Democrat and former school superintendent, said parents already have the ability to make their voices heard. “The issue … Continue reading →

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PARENT TRIGGER DEFEATED IN FLA SENATE!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

From Kathleen McGrory in The Buzz: The bill, sponsored by Sen. Kelli Stargel, would have let parents demand sweeping changes at failing public schools, including having the school transformed into a charter school.It had been watered down by an amendment … Continue reading →

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Bush Foundation Hides Behind Parent Revolution in Faux Parent Group Flap

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

Two separate revelations this week further unmasked the political scam that has become Florida’s Parent Trigger legislation. The first involves evidence that the petition that Michelle Rhee furnished Lakeland Senator Kelli Stargel is filled with people who never signed it. Scathing … Continue reading →

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Has Jeb Bush’s Foundation Created a Faux Parents Group to Support Parent Trigger?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Scathing Purple Musings discovered last August that Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future (FFF) had created a petition to support its efforts to pass Parent Trigger. Not many had signed the petition and many of the one’s who did were employees … Continue reading →

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Did Parent Revolution Bribe and Blackmail Undocumented Immigrants in California Parent Trigger Fight?

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

With Florida republican senators obliged to pass Parent Trigger this session to serve Jeb Bush’s political interests, it’s crucial to remind Floridians what those senators have to ignore.  With House sponsor Carlos Trujillo affirming that controversial charter school advocacy group Parent Revolution … Continue reading →

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RNC Common Core Resolution Indicts Jeb Bush and Florida’s Republican Policy-Makers

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

I find every read of the Republican National Committee’s resolution against Common Core State Standards (CCSS) more stunning than the last. Beyond the “on-size-fits-all” criticism are supporting details so condemning that they cannot be walked back now that they’re out. … Continue reading →

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Rhee Backpedals on Tests and Why it Matters in Florida

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

Karin Klein writes this from a stunning interview Michelle Rhee had with editorial board of the Los Angeles Times: One of the things we ask of teachers — but just one thing — is to raise those scores. So they … Continue reading →

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FL GOP Want to End Local Control of Schools; Except When They Don’t to Get Parent Trigger Passed

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

So Republican Altamonte Springs senator David Simmons has crafted an amendment to Parent Trigger which he says was inspired by a letter from education commissioner Tony Bennett. StateImpact writer Gina Jordan explains: Senators said they changed a key provision in … Continue reading →

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Rhee Needs Parent Trigger More than Parent Trigger Needs Her

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

Ann Kane and M. Catharine Evans have been chronicling Michelle Rhee’ s story since she was DC schools chancellor in the influential conservative website American Thinker. While I’ve not always agreed with their conclusions, they’ve been spot of with their … Continue reading →

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