Did Two Florida Republicans Use the Same Talking Points in Education Policy Op-Eds This Week
The well-documented PR campaign to save Florida’s test-based education system continues this week in a way that further discredits the effort. Former House Speaker Dean Cannon (R-Winter Park) and chair of the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, Marlene O’Toole (R-Lady Lake) wrote two astonishingly similar pieces which revealed that talking points came from the same source. Lets take a look.
From Cannon’s Orlando Sentinel piece:
From Cannon’s Orlando Sentinel piece:
The 2012 “Diplomas Count” report compared Florida to the rest of the nation and found that our Hispanic graduates beat the national graduation-rate average by 10 percentage points. African-American students exceed the average by 3.5 points. In fact, Florida places third in the nation for the largest increases in graduation rates of all students over the past 10 years, jumping from 52.5