Jeb Bush Talks Education Reform With Texas Lawmakers
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Texas senators "to go big or go home" when it comes to pushing changes to public education policy on Wednesday.
In Austin for the Texas Business Leadership Council's education summit, Bush spoke to the upper chamber's education committee on reforms he implemented in Florida, including voucher programs, mandatory online classes and an A through F school rating system. The committee's chairman, Dan Patrick, R-Houston, has made bringing those kinds of reforms to Texas a top priority for the current legislative session.
"When you have a chance to reform, it ought to ...
Comments (8)
Proud Texan
Governor Bush should take his own advice and "go home" to Florida.
Carlos A. Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh no.RRRRUUUUUUNNNNNNN. John Taylor Gatto and The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto expose what this crook is really up to. Avoid anything a Bush says, do your homework, and learn the occulted truth.
Susan Topper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh how awful, as if we need more jerks in Texas. We have enough thanks
Dinah Miller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Follow the money.
Dinah Miller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/30/e-mails-link-bush-foundation-corporations-and-education-officials/ Jeb behind ed laws that benefit his corporate funders.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Did he mention all the corruption and scandal surrounding his voucher scheme? There has been no real assessment of the massive online education program. Fix the funding issue. Outsourcing is the agenda of the same corporate interests that have given us our current testing debacle. Jeb needs to go back to Florida and shut up. His ideas of reform have been cooked up in the back rooms of ALEC. They do nothing to help students. They assist the private companies offering substandard education with no accountability or transparency. Parents need to speak up for their traditional schools.
Christie Smith
Love how he accuses teachers unions of only standing up for their members jobs. Not true. I know many many teachers who belong to unions, who are PASSIONATE about standing up for the children they teach. Some of them are so dedicated, they'd almost teach for free. They are sick about the push for testing that causes them to 'teach to the test'.
Furthermore, a little of the pot calling the kettle black, no? Seems to me Jebbie is standing up for his corporate backers, not true education for children.
Carol Morgan
Who would have dreamed that all the educational ideas of Dan Patrick and Michael Williams actually came from Jeb Bush?
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2013-02-28/just-go-home-jeb-bush#.UTAkazeRe3N