Yesterday, I published a post about how critics were raising questions about Jeb Bush’s financial ties to certain corporations.
I linked to an article in the Tampa Tribune. However, the link was dead. The article had disappeared.
A reader found it. Not on the Tampa Tribune website but here, where it has been preserved for readers. A testament to a free society.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Why is no one listening?
The RTT states are in BED with PEARSON!!!
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Excellent point. If the popular media would do a honest investigation regarding just this one aspect of “edu-deform” it would have an enormous impact on public awareness.
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I am on the committee that is responsible for making a recommendation for new ‘Common Core’ aligned math text books in my rather large school district. The district level Math coordinator likes the Pearson material and would like to see the district purchase it. I am also our unions Political Action Chair and have a platform from which to educate colleagues on these kind of issues. I certainly will be organizing against Pearson. This article will come in handy.
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Check all the posts on Pearson and Montgomery County Public Schools at http://www.parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com. The BOE here entered into a contract with Pearson and the new curriculum, which the school system labeled, ‘Curriculum 2.0’ is being rolled out. MCPS refuses to admit that this new curriculum is really the Pearson curriculum.
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Jeff Solochek of the Times regularly sources ReDefined Ed, Jeb Bush’s pro-choice/privatization blog in his news round up. I asked him why Florida blogs like Education Matters and Scathing Purple Musings that often have a different view point never got a mention but he never got back to me.
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One paragraph of the Tampa Bay piece jumped out at me for reasons I will explain. It was this:
Justin Hamilton’s previous position was as Press Secretary to Arne Duncan at the Department of Education, yet another example of what the hierarchy at that Department is really like.
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(Mark) Pudlow (Florida Education Association-Teacher’s Union spokesperson) said, “I think what it points out more than anything else is that the foundation and everything it does is all about business, and making sure there’s plenty of opportunity for people in the business to make money off Florida’s public education.”
This corporate/political feeding-frenzy on public school funds is disgusting and harms students.
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The question is, why was the article removed from the newspaper’s website? Under whose authority and for what reason? I certainly have my suspicions, but can we find out?
I tell people all the time that the local papers have been bought by the corporate education reform movement, because it seems to clear — but what proof?
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“Bush wouldn’t be available for comment on the article” ha! Why not? Surely he wants to tell us all about his righteous efforts to improve education. They are all the lowest of the low
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I think you got your title a little out of order. Did you mean “Jeb Bush: The Missing Link”? 😉
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“The summits, Emhof said, are “an opportunity for … lawmakers, policymakers, researchers, experts, innovators, and more to gather in one location to learn from each other.””
Sounds a lot like ALEC conferences.
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