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Baitball Blogger

(46,684 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 10:03 AM Aug 2013

Florida Ed. Commissioner to resign for changing Repub donor's charter school grade.

He screws up in Indiana, and in January he turns up in Florida. Special thanks should go to the FL Dem legislators who called for his removal.

TALLAHASSEE -- Education Commissioner Tony Bennett is expected to resign today over a school grading scandal, wire services are reporting.

Bennett, who has only been on the job in Florida since January, previously served as the head education official in Indiana, but lost reelection this past year. Earlier this week, the AP reported that Bennett had manipulated school grades to benefit a charter operation run by a prominent Republican donor.

Bennett has recently been revamping Florida's school grades program.

We will have more as this story develop

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/blogs/political-pulse/sfl-education-commissioner-expected-to-resign-20130801,0,5597337.post

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Florida Ed. Commissioner to resign for changing Repub donor's charter school grade. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2013 OP
Privatizing America's Scools Lasher Aug 2013 #1
Of course. Why would any one think it would be any different? Baitball Blogger Aug 2013 #2
I think the correct word is Piratizing.... nt Xipe Totec Aug 2013 #4
People do the strangest things for money. Octafish Aug 2013 #3
f.u. to charter schools and a extra special one to those who work in them thank you for leftyohiolib Aug 2013 #5

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
3. People do the strangest things for money.
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 10:11 AM
Aug 2013

Hope the president changes his mind on charter scams. I mean schools.

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
5. f.u. to charter schools and a extra special one to those who work in them thank you for
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:23 PM
Aug 2013

helping to undermine the public school system and the teachers union

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