UPDATE: Hesitancy to Change on HS Graduation Requirments Say About Bush Foundations? + Politifact Finds Trujillo’s Parent Trigger Claim False | Scathing Purple Musings

Politifact Finds Trujillo’s Parent Trigger Claim False | Scathing Purple Musings:

What Does Hesitancy to Change on HS Graduation Requirments Say About Bush Foundations?

by Bob Sikes

Patricia Levesque was against bipartisan support for changing Florida’s high school graduation requirements before she was for it. Writes Mary McGrory in the Tampa Bay Times:

Earlier this month, Patricia Levesque, executive director of the Foundation for Florida’s Future, tried to dissuade a House panel from dropping geometry from the graduation requirements. She urged lawmakers not to lower the standards, saying Florida students had a track record of rising to the occasion.
Levesque also raised concerns with the diploma designations. “When you set those low bars, the students that are going to be more often counseled into that diploma are our minority and underrepresented students,” she said.

According to StateImpact’sJohn O’Connor, Levesque has couched her opposition and is supporting a senate bill 

Politifact Finds Trujillo’s Parent Trigger Claim False

by Bob Sikes

It seems that a pattern is developing among Parent Trigger supporters: they can’t tell the truth. Scathing Purple Musings dispatched with the official talking points of Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future (FFF) here.Politifact addressed this claim that House sponsor Carlos Trujillo’s made during a March 18 hearing:

“This legislation was drafted by President Obama’s top advisers. It was drafted by President Clinton’s top advisers. Gov. Bush is a big supporter of this, so it’s not a partisan issue. I’m not sure why it’s turned into that.”

And Politifact’s ruling:

In trying to persuade Democrats to support his parent trigger bill, Trujillo said, “This legislation was drafted by President Obama’s top advisers. It was drafted by President Clinton’s top advisers.” He makes it sound as if the legislation were written in the West Wing.
Parent groups, unions and activists may disagree vehemently on the bill, but they sound in agreement on one thing: The concept was not drafted by “top advisers” to Clinton and Obama. The people who had a hand in creating the legislation would more accurately be described as