Jeb Bush is still Florida's failed elected superintendent, part 1: The NAEP atonement speech Jeb should give
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The governor is the elected superintendent of all Florida schools -- and not much else. Sure, he or she signs some Medicaid checks, pollutes some springs, and serves as a part-time figurehead emergency manager. But nothing in Florida remotely compares to public education as a vehicle for projecting power and influence into the lives of a Florida governor's constituents. Education is the largest portion of the state budget, the state's largest employer, and the public function the government most directly controls. Other than taxation itself, compulsory education is the state law most inherently coercive of its citizens. Nothing else is close.
Jeb Bush is still Florida's failed elected superintendent, part 1: The NAEP atonement speech Jeb should give
Jeb Bush is still Florida's failed elected…
Jeb Bush is still Florida's failed elected superintendent, part 1: The NAEP atonement speech Jeb should give
The governor is the elected superintendent of all Florida schools -- and not much else. Sure, he or she signs some Medicaid checks, pollutes some springs, and serves as a part-time figurehead emergency manager. But nothing in Florida remotely compares to public education as a vehicle for projecting power and influence into the lives of a Florida governor's constituents. Education is the largest portion of the state budget, the state's largest employer, and the public function the government most directly controls. Other than taxation itself, compulsory education is the state law most inherently coercive of its citizens. Nothing else is close.