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Obama's mistimed Miami school visit -- with Jeb Bush
- 03-02-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
At a time when Wisconsin teachers are protesting to keep their collective bargaining rights, President Obama is traveling to Florida to share a stage with former governor Jeb Bush, the king of corporate-driven, standardized test-obsessed school reform that devalues teachers and their unions. What a tag team. Obama is scheduled to speak to the students and faculty of Miami Central Senior High about the importance of out-educating the competition to secure America’s future. (That’s highly unlikely, with states cutting billions of dollars out of school budgets and with a reform agenda that is focused on expanding charter schools, assessing teachers based on students’ standardized test scores and the like, but never mind.) Obama is appearing in Florida as state legislators move toward passing legislation (Senate Bill 736, HB 7019) that: (more...)
Also: Huffington Post
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