| Jeb Bush, with cash and clout, pushes contentious school reforms Nov 27th 2012, 06:18  (Reuters) - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush soared to rock star status in the education world on the strength of a chart. A simple graph, it tracked fourth-grade reading scores. In 1998, when Bush was elected governor, Florida kids scored far below the national average. By the end of his second term, in 2007, they were far ahead, with especially impressive gains for low-income and minority students. Those results earned Bush bipartisan acclaim. As he convenes a star-studded policy summit this week in Washington, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential education reformers in the ...
|  | Writing bills, finding funds: Bush's foundation at work Nov 27th 2012, 06:18 (Reuters) - Soon after leaving office in 2007, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush launched the Foundation for Excellence in Education to "ignite a movement of reform, state by state." A close examination of the foundation's work, including a review of thousands of pages of email, shows the staff of two dozen has worked aggressively - if not always with immediate success - to shape public policy. Last fall the foundation flew Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen and other state schools chiefs to San Francisco for a three-day policy summit on topics ranging from online learning to teacher tenure. ... | |
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