A clip from the Wall Street Journal:
Education policy was Jeb Bush’s political
salvation. After his first bid for Florida governor in 1994 ended in defeat, he
threw himself into founding the state’s first charter school in a blighted
Miami neighborhood. He went on to serve two terms as the state’s “education
governor” and become a national policy expert.
Twenty years later, education policy has become a
potential liability, should Mr. Bush run for president in 2016, because of his support
for the national academic standards known as Common Core. The
initiative is increasingly viewed as the precursor to a federal takeover of
local schools among the conservatives who dominate GOP primaries.
In
an early sign of what’s to come if Mr. Bush seeks his party’s nomination, anti-Common Core
protesters gathered Monday in Cincinnati, where Mr. Bush was
headlining a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee. Some placards
wielded the hashtag #StopJebNow. . . .
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