March 19, 2024

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Florida's quote of the day

| 11/21/2014

" This morning over 213 million Chinese students went to school and nobody debated whether academic expectations should be lowered in order to protect the students’ self-esteem."

-- Jeb Bush

Washington is lush with speculation about who will run for president so when Jeb Bush took the stage Thursday morning at his Foundation for Excellence in Education summit, there was great interest in what he had to say.

The former Florida governor stuck to the wonky contours of education policy — it is why he is here, after all — but in doing so Bush also tried to finesse a major issue that would confront him if he decides to enter the hunt for the 2016 Republican nomination: Common Core.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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