On Tuesday, Bush spoke to a packed house at a downtown hotel in the nation's capital, promoting his favored policies in areas such as private school vouchers, test-based accountability, tougher forms of teacher evaluation, and school technology. The receptive audience included current and former officeholders, business and philanthropic officials, state schools chiefs, and others.
Because of the nation's—mostly parents—backlash against not only test mania but also how these tests are used to privatize, corporatize, and marketize schools and all things education, Jeb Bush, family, and friends should indeed feel embattled....
-Angela
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