Jeb Bush recognized at his summit meeting that the policies he champions were soundly rebuffed by voters in Indiana (and did he mention Idaho?).
But he assures his rightwing allies that testing, evaluating teachers by student scores, vouchers and charters are the right course, even if educators, parents, and other citizens don’t agree. He apparently compared himself to Lyndon Baines Johnson, fighting to push civil rights legislation when it was unpopular.
Someone should inform him that he is fighting to preserve a failed status quo, not a struggling dissident movement. Someone should tell him that NCLB is federal law and that its ugly step-child Race to the Top bribed the states to double down on the punitive strategies of NCLB.
His lament of “stay the course” is very good news indeed. It is a public admission that the privatizers know they have no popular base.
Their strategies have failed for more than a decade.
When do they admit to themselves that it’s over?
At some point, they will stop pouring money into a losing and unpopular cause.
That’s the day when we can begin to build a genuine movement to improve our schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
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I wonder if Corporate Owned Education will be the issue that splits the Democratic Party?
Jeb’s endorsement of privatization is just another Bush family mega-business at the expense of education; public or private. Just as alarming is the push to have Jeb the presidential run in ’16! The political Bush family dogma has brought us so much war, loss of our rights, destruction of education and the middle class diminished to a fraction of a healthy economic country while enriching the plutocrats. Jeb is a slicker version of “W” and therefore will be more manipulative to the general public who will be easy prey for the NWO Machiavelli leaders who will use him (probably willingly, no doubt) to finish what their other puppet leaders have so sadly wrecked upon us!
If he is the best the Republicans have for 2016, they are doomed again. He is sleazy, opportunistic, egotistical, arrogant and ignorant.
Any goodness started and ended with their dad, George Bush 41.
yep–their dad was for real–the kids got nothing
You are absolutely on target, except for the spelling of wreaked.
I have learned through over 20 years of intensive research into fraud in public schools that one thing they do not want you to look at is what is really going on while the smoke and mirrors are spinning at light speed. Do a freeze frame and look at the facts. Almost all districts and states lie to everyone about the basic facts. N.Y city schools told the parents their budget was $3.9 billion and then I find the Deloitte and Touche audit and it was $23.9 billion or about $22,000/student. At LAUSD, the second largest, the superintendent, Deasy, and Board President, Garcia, recently testified at an Assembly Select Committee on preventing school districts from going into receivership, bankruptcy, that LAUSD only had $4,800/student. When CORE-CA testified at the same hearing on the last panel we presented documentation from the California Dept. of Education website which showed that LAUSD in 2010-11 had $11,233/student. That’s close enough isn’t it? Not only that in the same year when you compared the enrollment with the ADA over 102,000 students or 15% did not come to school everyday for a lost revenue in that year alone of over $1.15 billion. In 2002 when LAUSD had 156,000 more students than in 2010-11 only 14,500 or 2% did not come to school everyday. And they call themselves the “REFORM BOARD.” Also, just this last month in analyzing the special education students in the district their own 2012-13 budget shows that special ed is only 4.7%. The State says average is 10% and nationally it is 12-13%. The Chanda Smith Court Appointed Special Ed Moniter told me personally recently that it is 11.47% which is about what it should be. The problem is that when I asked where he got the data he told me “The LAUSD Data Base.” How can the same data base have 4.7% and 1`1`.47%? On top of that the budget showed that special ed catagorical funding was 24% of the total revenue to LAUSD and they have the nerve to say that special ed is robbing the regular general fund. Now do you understand not to believe anything they say until you have looked at the facts and this is just a small example.
http://signon.org/sign/president-obama-replace-1?source=c.fwd
Here is a link to a petition to replace Arne Duncan with Dr. Linda Darling Hammond.