Analysis challenges Jeb Bush’s ‘Florida Formula’ for ed reform
The series of school reforms that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is promoting — and being applauded — in states around the country as a formula for raising student achievement around the country was not actually successful, according to a new analysis.
The review was conducted by William Mathis, managing director of the nonprofit National Education Policy Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education, and looks at a presentation Bush made to Michigan legislators on June 15.
Though Bush hasn’t been governor of Florida since 2007, what he says about school reform today matters. He has become a guru to a number of governors across the country who see the program he launched in 1999 — and kept promoting through his two foundations after he left the governorship — as the right path to school reform. The mission of his Foundation for Excellence in Education is to support reform in other states “primarily based on the success of the Florida Formula on Student Achievement.”
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The release this week of 2011 Maryland State Assessments revealed this detail:
The pass rate in math for seventh-grade students jumped six points to 60 percent. But for eighth-graders, the pass rate increased by three points to 44 percent, which remains far below the state average.
What happened?
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