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Jeb Bush: Debate on Common Core 'troubling'
Politico ^ | November 20, 2014 | Caitlin Emma

Posted on 11/20/2014 3:26:00 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush stood before a packed hall Thursday morning and rallied his education troops, encouraging the crowd to keep fighting the “government-run, unionized and politicized monopolies who trap good teachers, administrators and struggling students in a system nobody can escape.”

Addressing a national summit hosted by his group, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, Bush stuck to education in his keynote address. But his speech drew national media attention, reflective of a country hanging on his every word, eager to grasp onto any shred of his political ambitions.

He once again defended the Common Core, which has become a rallying cry for conservatives who see the standards as federal overreach into state education, and could prove a liability if he runs for president. And he touched on the increasingly controversial topic of testing, as school boards and districts across the country revolt against federally mandated exams.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; commoncore; jebbush; publicschools
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To: Steve_Seattle

I’d vote for Rand Paul before I’d vote for Jeb Bush.


41 posted on 11/20/2014 4:44:37 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: PJ-Comix
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42 posted on 11/20/2014 4:47:48 PM PST by mykroar (Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams)
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To: PJ-Comix

Jeb Bush thinks were as stupid as dim voters.
No.
No grubering by jeb, now go away.


43 posted on 11/20/2014 4:48:11 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I will never vote for him. Period.


44 posted on 11/20/2014 4:52:40 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

If they run Jeb against a Clinton, you can bet they might as well hand over the elections to Hillary, because a Bush vs. Clinton will be plaid by the media replacing Hillary with Bill in images and everyone will love “Bill”.


45 posted on 11/20/2014 5:03:20 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: big'ol_freeper

The republican party is now one with the rat party and they will go down together


46 posted on 11/20/2014 5:16:00 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: PJ-Comix

His Daddy loves Agenda 21. Common Core is necessary to achieve its goals.


47 posted on 11/20/2014 5:16:52 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Jeb Bush is an idiot.


48 posted on 11/20/2014 5:19:19 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Summary: Jeb Bush says “I find the debate about the common core troubling. Let me thrown some straw man arguments around about how people are only complaining because they want their kids to have high self esteem and rigorous standards make them nervous. Now I’ll knock over the strawman, argument over.”


49 posted on 11/20/2014 7:15:44 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: upchuck
Have been searching for something that would cause me to never, ever vote for Jeb Bush. Just found it: he’s a Common Core lover. Sorry Jeb, I’m finished with you.

He lost me with Terri Schiavo.

50 posted on 11/20/2014 8:23:55 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Jeb Bush murdered Terri Schiavo.

I will never vote for him. Never. Never. Never. Never. Never.


51 posted on 11/20/2014 10:09:25 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Talisker

He lost me with Terri Schiavo.
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The individual who had legal authority regarding Terri was her husband, not some politician.

I’m not a Jeb Bush fan by any stretch, but he made the right decision in that situation by not usurping the husband’s rights under the law.

...Now, I expect I’ll be flamed for expressing my opinion.


52 posted on 11/21/2014 2:31:30 AM PST by octex
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To: PJ-Comix

Change parties you Liberal Puke. Enough of your Liberal family dynasty also.


53 posted on 11/21/2014 3:01:23 AM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: octex
I’m not a Jeb Bush fan by any stretch, but he made the right decision in that situation by not usurping the husband’s rights under the law. ...Now, I expect I’ll be flamed for expressing my opinion.

No, you won't be flamed for expressing your opinion. But I do indeed reject the hell out of you for what your opinion is, given your pathetic editing of Terri's torture-murder and your blanket excusing of Jeb.

54 posted on 11/21/2014 10:30:49 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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