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The Answer Sheet - Obama's mistimed Miami school visit -- with Jeb Bush

The Answer Sheet - Obama's mistimed Miami school visit -- with Jeb Bush

Obama's mistimed Miami school visit -- with Jeb Bush

By Valerie Strauss

At a time when Wisconsin teachers are protesting to keep their collective bargaining rights, President Obama is traveling to Florida to share a stage with former governor Jeb Bush, the king of corporate-driven, standardized test-obsessed school reform that devalues teachers and their unions.

What a tag team.

Obama is scheduled to speak to the students and faculty of Miami Central Senior High about the importance of out-educating the competition to secure America’s future. (That’s highly unlikely, with