"Jeb Bush Draws Tea Party Ire Touting Education Record"

[applegrove]

Jeb Bush Draws Tea Party Ire Touting Education Record

By Toluse Olorunnipa at Bloomberg News

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/jeb-bush-draws-tea-party-ire-touting-education-record.html

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One of Jeb Bush’s biggest accomplishments is his work to improve Florida’s public schools -- and that record may come under fiercest attack from his own party if he enters the Republican 2016 presidential primary.

The former governor is touting gains under his “A-plus” plan, which imposed statewide testing standards, provided financial rewards to improving schools and offered students a way out of those that were failing them. The state’s high-school graduation rate has increased to 75.6 percent, compared with 52.5 percent when Bush, 61, took office in 1999.

Yet his support for a similar set of national education standards, the “Common Core” initiative created in 2009 by the bipartian National Governors Association and backed by the White House, places him at odds with forces within his party who say it’s government overreach.

“There’s a lot of anger and concern about him running, because of his stance on education,” said Karen Effrem, co-founder of the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition, which is made up of several local Tea Party groups. “All he’s doing in expanding federal control and destroying the autonomy of parents and local school districts.”




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[applegrove]

1. Oh man that GOP nomination race is going to be a bloodbath.

[Nite Owl]

2. I can't wait to watch

their debates. They will do more harm to each other than we could do to them. This could be fun to watch.

[applegrove]

3. I feel trepadation. Not that the GOP doesn't deserve it. But oh how people on the right,

particularly the base, vote. Against their own best interests all the while being lesser people with their hate. Oh the humanity that follows these politicians. Oh the humanity.

[Nite Owl]

5. Their base is a totally brainwashed

group. They are going to vote GOP or stay home .
We might be able to turn some regular Republicans is they are outlandish.
The base feels that it's ok to hate because their elected officials are the same so if they say things and feel things that are hateful there are no social or moral barriers.

[Cha]

9. the goprimary candidates will lie their heads off in the debates like always and if

there is "fact checking" they won't bother to read it. It must be so easy on one hand to be a gop when lying is all you have to do to suck them in.. make up shit as you go along(didn't work out for Perry though). Otoh.. they have no souls so there is that.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Indeed.

If the McDaniels camp reaction to losing is any indication, the tea party is going to ensure a sizable GOP loss in 2016(10% or more).

[Turbineguy]

6. Mentioning education around a teabagger?

To paraphrase Basil Fawlty, "I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it!"

[Archae]

7. That headline made me think...

"Obviously, the Teabaggers don't like education..."

[Hugabear]

8. The teabaggers won't be satisfied until they abolish public education

That's not an exaggeration