Greene is a fox in the hen house, joins Jeb Bush's anti-public education club
In case you were wondering why Greene had been such a disappointment, it turns out it is by design as she has joined Jeb Bush's Chiefs for Change, a group that pushes corporate reforms, i.e., high stakes testing, punish the teacher evaluations, and scabs as teachers, and privatization, the expansion of charter schools and vouchers. Friends, we have met the enemy, and it is Greene.
The Jacksonville Public Education Fund, i.e., a way station for Teach for America alumni, congratulated her on joining the Chiefs for Change, just proving a tiger can't change its stripes, once for privatization, always for privatization.
From in the Public Interest,
Emails between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), founded and chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and state education officials, show that the foundation is writing state education laws and regulations in ways that could benefit its corporate funders. The emails, obtained through public records requests, reveal that the organization, sometimes working through its Chiefs For Change affiliate, wrote and edited laws, regulations, and executive orders, often in ways that improved profit opportunities for the organization’s financial backers.
“Testing companies and for-profit online schools see education as big business,” said In the Public Interest Executive Director Donald Cohen. “For-profit companies are hiding behind FEE and CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Greene is a fox in the hen house, joins Jeb Bush's anti-public education club