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UPDATE: Because of protests from parents and his State board of education, John White, the state superintendent of Louisiana, just announced he was pulling all the state’s student data out of inBloom. Louisiana was the only state sharing all its confidential student data statewide except for NY with this controversial corporation called inBloom Inc., and the only other state that we know of that had already begun to send them this sensitive data, which in turn planned to provide it …
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By Rita Solnet
Magicians call it misdirection.
Salesmen call it diversion.
Senators call it Amendments.
Some Florida legislators are well versed in the David Copperfield method of passing hotly contested bills. Using sleight of hand, they slap on an amendment and then create the illusion that – abracadabra – all concerns are resolved, all opposition is appeased.
Florida’s controversial Senate Bill 862, the Parent Empowerment bill, would create a parent trigger law enabling parents to collect signatures from 51% of the school population to shut down a neighborhood school and convert it to a private, for profit entity.
Last week Senator David Simmons pulled a last minute amendment out of his top hat and presented it as the remedy to what ails the controversial ‘parent trigger’ bill.
Simmons didn’t study magician banter, I suppose, because when confronted with reality vs perception, he stumbled over his words saying he needed to ‘clean up the amendment’s language.’ It was sort of like
