WASHINGTON POST STORY CITES E-MAILS THAT LINK HANNA SKANDERA TO NATIONAL EDUCATION-REFORM MOVEMENT SUPPORTED BY FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR JEB BUSH
A very insightful and eerily familiar sounding story by Valerie Strauss appeared in the Washington Post on January 30, 2013, that directly cited acting education chief Hanna Skandara and her connection with the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE). The story relates information generated from thousands of emails between FEE and a foundation set up by Jeb Bush called Chiefs for Change.
Here are a couple of excerpts regarding New Mexico:
• FEE staff served as advisers to acting education commissioner Hanna Skandera. FEE, and, by extension, its donors, had great influence over New Mexico legislation. In a Jan., 2011, e-mail, Skandera directs a staffer from the legislature to forward all education bills to FEE’s Christy Hovanetz for edits: “Can you send all Governor’s office ed bill language to Christy, including social promotion?” Another FEE staffer, Mary Laura Bragg, wrote to Skandera, “I’m at your beck and call.”
• The e-mails indicate that FEE paid for Skandera’s travel, reimbursing New Mexico $3382.91 for her expenses, including trip to Washington, D.C., to testify before Congress.
Read the whole story here:
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