I should have reported this sooner, but other election returns distracted me.
Jeb Bush’s latest privatization scheme suffered a major setback at the hands of Florida voters.
He and his allies pushed Amendment 8 to allow public funds to flow to religious schools. As usual with “reform” measures, this one had a misleading name. It was about “religious freedom,” but voters recognized it was a voucher scheme and they rejected it overwhelmingly.
Other bad news for the Bush machine: Tony Bennett, the head of Bush’s Chiefs for Change, was whipped.
Tony Luna pushed Bush’s expensive but profitable (for tech companies) ideas about mandatory laptops for every student and mandatory online courses, as well as merit pay and union-demolition. Happily, the Luna laws were crushed and repealed by Idaho voters.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Minor correction: TOM Luna, not Tony Luna. Also, the laptops were for every high school student with two online courses required for graduation (he originally went for eight).
The Luna laws weren’t just defeated in Idaho, the reddest of red states. They were crushed, mushed, ground up into dust.
— 57 percent opposed to restrictions on teachers unions in Prop 1.
— 58 percent voted no on Prop 2, which paid teacher bonuses based on student test scores and other measures.
— 67 percent rejected a mandate for laptops and online credits for every Idaho high school student.
Luna had been selected as a member of Romney’s 19-member education policy advisory group, and rumors were that a Romney victory would send him to Washington, DC, where he had served before as an adviser to US Secretary of Education Rod Paidge. He was the only state superintendent chosen for the panel. His other distinction is that he is the only state superintendent with no experience in education; he holds a BA in liberal arts from Thomas Edison State College, obtained online with many credits awarded for “life experience” for his time running a business that weighs trucks.
Six days after the election, he has finally met with the media. During the press conference, he referred to the defeat of his namesake legislation as a “bump in the road.”
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/11/12/2343998/luna-teacher-bonus-money-is-safe.html
Both the candidates he endorsed in Jacksonville, one of who raised 180,000 dollars sadly won.
Yike!! That (Luna laws) is EXACTLY what our new Governor elect Pat McCrory want to do in NC!! Almost verbatim!!
Florida clearly is not interested in his brand of watered-down milk anymore. #GotJeb
Florida indeed voted down several amendments to its constitution, including teh “religious freedom” amendment, but they have allowed the legislature to impose many measures similar to Idaho’s defeated laws, including requiring all high school students to take at least one on-line course to graduate, and connecting teacher’s pay to standardized test scores.
Jeb Bush’s handiwork
Correction: Idaho’s Superintendent of Schools is Tom Luna, Not Tony