Florida Charter School’s Man at DOE Spins Their Poor Record
In a weekend interview with GRADEBOOK’s Jeffrey Solochek, Michael Kooi, the executive director of Florida’s Office of Independent Education and Parental Choice. Kooi played the interview close to the vest and effectively explained how the state’s new initiatives would work. The interview would have been innocuous had it not for the way he decided to answer the offer to make an additional comment choice at the end of the interview. Kooi chose to spin the fact that 15 of 31 failures in Florida last year were from charter schools – including the one where his boss, Governor Rick Scott signed SB736:
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