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Jeb Bush: How shopping for milk is like choosing a school - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Jeb Bush: How shopping for milk is like choosing a school - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:
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Jeb Bush: How shopping for milk is like choosing a school

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said pretty much what you’d expect him to say about education reform at the GOP convention — schools are failing and teachers unions are bad — but you might not have expected
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this as his pitch for school choice:
Everywhere in our lives, we get the chance to choose. Go down any supermarket aisle - you’ll find an incredible selection of milk. You can get whole milk, 2% milk, low-fat milk or skim milk. Organic milk, and milk with extra Vitamin D. There’s flavored milk — chocolate, strawberry or vanilla — and it doesn’t even taste like milk. They even make milk for people who can’t drink milk. Shouldn’t parents have that kind of choice in