What Jeb Bush doesn’t like to admit

04-04-2011

Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post

There is a big hole in the story Jeb Bush tells when he talks about school reforms he implemented in Florida during the eight years he was governor. It matters because, as my colleague Nick Anderson wrote in this Post story, Bush has become something of a guru to a number of governors across the country who see his program as a model for reforming their own state’s education system. Under Bush, who took office in 1999, Florida saw gains in standardized test scores and in closing the achievement gap. His influence did not wane in the state when he stepped down in 2007 but rather extended beyond its borders through two foundations that he founded and uses to push policy initiatives. Bush, the brother of former president George W. Bush and the son of former president George W.H. Bush, travels the country talking up what he calls his “comprehensive” package of accountability and school choice reforms in Florida, but always emphasizes the institution of a test-based system to grade schools on an A through F scale (more...)

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