Tony Bennett: Partisan Republican
StateImpact Indiana reporter Elle Moxley provides this quote from outgoing state schools superintendent Tony Bennett:
Bennett starts his new job as Florida Commissioner of Education Monday. But he says he’s not worried about state lawmakers dismantling the education system he built with Gov. Mitch Daniels.So Bennett is admitting he owes his Indiana success to his fellow republicans and partisan politics. There’s no mystery that Florida would not have it’s testing first, privatization via charter school model without the republican
“I think we have a huge amount of political will in [Gov. Mike Pence's] office around education reform,” says Bennett. “I think the fact we have a supermajority in the House and Senate speaks highly to that.”