Jeb Bush’s disdain for public education
Jeb Bush (AP Photo/El Nuevo Herald, Hector Gabino)
It’s always useful to know where people are coming from, so we can thank former Florida governor Jeb Bush for making it so easy to understand where he stands on public education. He has nothing but disdain for it.
If you think this is somehow an exaggeration, consider what Bush, a national education reform leader, has said recently about the subject. In his keynote speech this week at the Mackinac Policy Conference in northern Michigan, Bush said,according to the Huffington Post:
We must expand [school] choice. Our governance model includes over 13,000 government-run monopolies run by unions.
and
We can’t just outsource public education to bureaucracies and public education unions and hope for the best.
Mind you, Bush does support “outsourcing” public education to for-profit companies, as is evidenced by his longtime support for charter schools run by for-profit companies as well as private school vouchers paid for
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