AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida Emails
From Orlando Sentinel reporter Leslie Postal:
The AFT’s president, Randi Weingarten, is to be in Miami this afternoon and will speak about the email request then.The union wants a wide-range of emails from players not specifically linked to the Bennett controversy in Indiana.But here are the connections: Bush’s education foundations are influential, and Bennett was part of “chiefs for change,” a group put together by Bush’s group. ALEC is a private group of conservative state lawmakers that pushes “model” legislation on a host of topics. Bush, a former Florida governor, was a featured speaker at an ALEC conference last week in Chicago.“Public education is a public good, and taxpayers, parents, teachers and others who rely on our public schools are entitled to full transparency around the decisions and actions made regarding our schools—whether in
