Another Conveniently Timed Study With Jeb Bush’s Fingerprints On It
Fund Education Now founder Kathleen Oropeza was having none of the most recent study that gushed over another Jeb Bush initiative. Noting the Harvard study which supports Florida’s 3rd grade retention based on FCAT came from a researcher works for a center chaired by Bush, Oropez had this for StateImpact reporter John O’Connor:
This is an echo chamber, a self-licking ice cream cone,” said Kathleen Oropeza, a co-founder ofOrlando-based Fund Education Now. “It is based on supposition and flies in the face of known longitudinal studies that stretch back 100 years.
“Real children are suffering right now because of this policy,” she said. “More children in other