Jeb Bush pitches “total voucherization” at education summit

“We know what the problems are”, he said.

Christie spoke at length about his administration’s efforts to improve education in urban areas, particularly Camden and Newark, which both have state-appointed superintendents. “Have they spoken out and acted against Common Core? And when something doesn’t work that we try, we then have to change it”.

The Republican presidential candidate often tells a story about his son bringing home Common Core-aligned math homework that requires a new, multi-step process for solving basic addition. “They should be completely out of that business”, Bush said. He said his bid to end public-sector collective bargaining in his state, which sparked mass protests and a recall election “wasn’t just about unions”. “I think some of this stuff ought to be bundled up, block grants ought to be given to expand these programs that are totally effective at a lower cost”. “That’s why I disagree with Governor Bush”.

Also due in New Hampshire on Wednesday is GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

In an interview, the AFC emphasized that they did invite all Republican candidates and tried to accommodate everyone, but acknowledged that having all Republican candidates would logistically have been hard. “We went into this with a clean slate and did a careful analysis of each candidates’ positions and statements”.

Jeb Bush has distanced himself from the phrase “Common Core”, and last week called the term “poisonous”.

“In some ways, you have our own education disaster happening today in many communities where children are already trapped in failing schools, and it shouldn’t’ take a hurricane to cause us to take the drastic steps – not incremental steps – but the big steps to change that situation so they all have a chance to get a great education”, Jindal said.

Kasich spoke to a group of education advocates at a forum kicking off a busy day of campaigning in the early-voting state of New Hampshire.

“If people don’t like Common Core, that’s fine”, Bush said.

“It was so hard, it was impossible for me to imagine”, Bush said of reading Cervantes and others in Spanish.

Fiorina is speaking at an education forum in New Hampshire alongside five other GOP hopefuls.

Kasich doesn’t buy the popular GOP talking point dating back to President Ronald Reagan that the Education Department should be closed as a means to downsize the federal government and get it out of education policy.

“When Washington spends more money, the quality of education in this nation does not improve”, she said. She also says a desire to prepare students for careers shouldn’t eliminate access to music, art and philosophy programs.

However, a couple of candidates sought to show they can work with unions, while reassuring conservatives here that their policies prioritized children over teachers.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who stands out from his Republican rivals as a supporter of the Common Core education standards, is stressing the role of individual states in setting standards for themselves. “Just make sure your standards are much higher than the ones you had before”. “Sit down in the mud with them”, he said, and let them know you want to help.

Former business executive Carly Fiorina said a teachers union is a power structure “designed to preserve the status quo” and pretty universally on the wrong side of these issues.

“I’ve got tire marks on my forehead”.