Tag Archives: John Winn

The Bush Foundation’s “Air Cover” Hack and Flack

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Reporters across the nation are sifting through the emails which In the Public Interest released two weeks ago. It’s that drip, drip, drip you hear. Now this Associated Press story about contacts Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) … Continue reading →

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FairTest: Testing Overkill Earns Florida an “F”

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

On a day when the big education policy news was a big speech by Jeb Bush, the Orlando Sentinel published a Q & A with FairTest director Bob Schaeffer. Editorial columnist Darryl Owens conducted the interview via email. Q: The Florida School Boards … Continue reading →

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Why Should Floridians Trust the FLDOE and Jeb Bush’s Foundations to Tell the Truth About Testing?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

The Florida Department of Education took the remarkable step last week of Tweeting  the Bush Foundation’s “Get the Facts on FCAT”.  It was the latest instance which confirmed that the powerful former governor is doing the heavy PR lifting to save the test-based accountability system he began. … Continue reading →

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Taking Up the Jeb Bush Gang of Five On Their Offer to “Talk About FCAT”

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

Last week’s decision by Florida House Speaker-in-waiting Will Weatherford to put his name on an op-ed in support of Florida oppression test regime, increased the number to five of Jeb Bush loyalists attempting to defend what essentially is Bush’s education … Continue reading →

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Will Weatherford, Like Levesque Ignores Crippling Remediation Rates in FCAT Spin

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

Defense of FCAT and Jeb Bush’s high-states test regime has been limited to his Gang of Four in policy wonk Patricia Levesque, former Bush ed commissioner John Winn, former Bush chief of staff and current BOE chair Kathleen Shanahan and … Continue reading →

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Florida PTA Supports Resolution Efforts Against High Stakes Testing; Meanwhile, Gerard Robinson’s Meltdown Continues

Posted on June 16, 2012 by

From Orange County’s (Orlando) PTA Councils: Florida PTA, along with our parent National PTA, supports recent Resolution efforts against high-stakes testing. PTA’s long-standing position is, in summary. PTA opposes the use of a national, mandated, standardized test as the sole … Continue reading →

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Gerard Robinson’s Arrogant, Desperate Dismissal of Florida’s Local School Boards

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

In a lunch time address to state school board members, Commissioner of Education Gerard Robinson lectured board members that they were “ignoring” a decade of progess if they move forward with their resolution against high-stakes tests. State Impact’s John O’Connor … Continue reading →

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Florida Education Board Could Suggest Changing School Ratings

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Writing for NPR’s State Impact, John O’Connor reports: The Florida Board of Education could recommend lawmakers revise the state school performance system at a meeting tomorrow. School districts have complained the system sets higher standards for the state’s lowest-rated schools. … Continue reading →

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Miami Dade Superintendent Addresses Congress; Urges Revamp of the Way Students are Measured

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Miami Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho joined educators from Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Mexico before a congressional committee yesterday and urged them to revamp “how the federal government measures student success.” Above all, they criticized how the existing law compares test scores … Continue reading →

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When Test Results are the Only Thing That Matter

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

Florida’s education system has been test-based for as long as any state’s. So much so that parents have begun to accept that fact that it’s the only thing that matters. And who can blame them when they become incredulous over the … Continue reading →

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