Jonathan Easley of The Hill writes:
You have to wonder about that “thundered,” but just the same, the piece is interesting for what it says about the larger Bush position on education and, by extension, on Common Core, which he supports (but don’t expect him to be “thundering” about it) and that is opposed by that part of the electorate that is both described and dismissed as “the Republican base.”
Bush said this about his own record on education:
Okay. And as Elizabeth Warren might say, “Good for you.” But does his success in Florida rule out the possibility of similar – possibly even greater – successes in other states, without a set of federal standards to guide them? If he didn’t need them in Florida, why should other states need them? Might not Scott Walker and Wisconsin, say, do okay on their own? Do they really need Arne Duncan and the NEA to compel them to do the right thing?
And if Jeb Bush thinks that only crackpots could believe that Common Core could lead to ever more control of K-12 education by Washington, then maybe he should check out what has happened in the world of higher education.
