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CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 09:22 PM
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Florida DUers: Jeb visits GA so we can make our schools like yours. Is this a good thing?
Seriously. Read this:

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is encouraging Georgia lawmakers to enact the education reforms he established while in office.
Bush visited Atlanta as part of a nationwide tour with his Foundation for Excellence in Education to tout the changes he made in Florida, which ranged from giving extra funding to schools based on an A-through-F grading system to making it easier for charter schools to open in the state.
Bush has joined forces with The Heritage Foundation, a conservative D.C.-based think tank, and visited cities across the country.
He bragged that Florida's fourth- and eighth-graders are performing above national average in reading and math a decade after the state ranked at the bottom nationally in both subjects.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 09:27 PM
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1. It is not a good thing. Nothing that the BFEE spawns is a good thing.
Edited on Fri Oct-30-09 09:37 PM by Obamanaut
Edited to add that he screwed up the Dept of Corrections also. Brought in an old buddy to run things, privatized food service and the inmate canteen (store) system - and this guy ended up in prison himself.
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