Another Bush Chief For Change, Another Misinformation Campaign
It appears that another one of Bush’s Chiefs for Change, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi, is on a similar state-wide tour to advance another Bush policy. And like Robinson in Florida last year, Barresi is spinning to protect his agenda. From the editors of Tulsa World:
You need a scorecard to keep track of the outrages coming out of state Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi’s office.
The latest is that Barresi has been traveling the state telling anyone who would listen that authors of a new report critical of the controversial A-F grading system for schools have privately recanted.
That, the authors say, is untrue. “I have no idea where that idea on the part of the superintendent came from,” said senior project coordinator Patrick Forsyth, professor of education and co-director of the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa. “We are