Richard Corcoran, speaker of the House of Representatives, is likely to be selected as the next Commissioner of Education. Corcoran is a huge supporter of vouchers and charters. His wife runs a charter school. In Florida, conflicts of interest don’t matter. The Legislature frequently passes legislation to benefit members and their family members, especially in education.
He is also author of a much-ridiculed plan called “Best and Brightest,” in which Florida pays a bonus to teachers based on their high school SAT scores, the test usually taken when they were high school juniors or seniors.
As noted in the previous post, Florida is a citadel of school choice but is a model of mediocrity on national tests.
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Florida is a service economy so it does not matter if people get educated.
You don’t need an education to dance around in a Mickey Mouse costume at Disney world.
At least that’s what Florida leaders think.
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SomeDam Poet,
TRUE.
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It’s a shame Florida kept the status quo ed reform echo chamber in charge.
Ohio did too. The architects of ECOT? They all kept their jobs. Most of them got promotions.
Meanwhile, the unfashionable “public school sector” continues to be completely ignored and the state drops in national rankings every year.
We can’t PAY ed reform politicians to return some value to public school families in this state- we know because we are paying them and they simply aren’t interested in working on behalf of our schools. They kicked the legislative session off with yet another charter school commission – number 397 of their endless sessions initiating charters and vouchers, expanding charters and vouchers or regulating charters and vouchers.
No one in Columbus is lifting a finger on behalf of public school students. If you arrived from Mars and looked at Ohio state government you would think 85% of the kids in this state attend charters and private schools, not the public schools they actually DO attend.
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Beto’s wife runs a charter school also, btw.
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That’s unfortunate!
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It is perhaps time to stop fantasizing about how this or that Presidential ticket will line up in 2020 and thus turn things around for education — outside of a very few voices, almost all “Democratic” names are blindly pushing much more of the same.
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How many states have now been lost to the terminal privatizing for profit of everything public cancer?
Florida
Ohio
North Carolina
How many more?
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Not lost. Up for grabs. Never say never.
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Until are species becomes extinct, there is always time to fight on even against overwhelming odds. But after the 2018 midterms, those odds have improved for us and not for the terminal blood red toxic Trumpish cancer.
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