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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida 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
Lasher
(27,537 posts)This is what it looks like.
Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Hope the president changes his mind on charter scams. I mean schools.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)helping to undermine the public school system and the teachers union