(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Believe it or not 20 years have passed since Jeb Bush kicked off the Florida K-12 reforms during the 1999 legislative session. In a kickoff post at Redefined for a series of articles I lay out the reasoning behind the Florida Supreme Court’s decisive rejection of a recently concluded challenge to these reforms.
A highly coveted Jayblog “No-Prize” goes to whomever leaves the best Beatles lyric pun in the comment section that hasn’t already been used on social media.
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Ok so this is happening on Twitter. Here are the entries thus far.
Pat Wolf:
Here comes school choice (do-dum-do-dum)
Here comes school choice, and I say
It’s alright
Ron Matus:
You say you want customization
Well, you know
Public schools have been this way for years
Robert Pondiscio:
I say “Test”, you say “No”.
You say “Stop” and I say “Go, go, go…”
Hey, Jeb. Don’t be afraid.
Take a bad school, and make it better…
“But the school on the hill
Sees its scores going down…”
Don Soifer:
Here’s a weak ESSA Plan,
Written just for ESSA Land,
Making all these ESSA plans for Nobody….
Emily Sass:
“Imagine all the people
Living in literacy…”
Yesterday
School choice’s political success seemed so far away
Now it looks as though it’s here to stay
Oh, I turned my back on choice yesterday
Suddenly
I wasn’t half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow of vacillation hanging over me
Oh, Common Core crashed suddenly
Why Common Core had to go, I don’t know
The unions wouldn’t say
I calculated the politics wrong
Now I long for yesterday
Yesterday
Ed reform was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
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