{"id":19912,"date":"2013-08-20T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19912"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:34:19","slug":"what-education-experts-said-about-tony-bennetts-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/20\/what-education-experts-said-about-tony-bennetts-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Education Experts Said About Tony Bennett&#8217;s Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19913\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The Oscar Wilde statue in Dublin. Wilde was almost as quotable as some of the education experts in this month's Whiteboard Advisors survey.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/8-20_OscarWilde.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19913\" alt=\"The Oscar Wilde statue in Dublin. Wilde was almost as quotable as some of the education experts in this month's Whiteboard Advisors survey.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/8-20_OscarWilde-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/8-20_OscarWilde-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/08\/8-20_OscarWilde.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Stephane Moussie \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oscar Wilde statue in Dublin. Wilde was almost as quotable as some of the education experts in this month&#39;s Whiteboard Advisors survey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every month, Washington, D.C.-based education policy firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteboardadvisors.com\/\">Whiteboard Advisors <\/a>anonymously survey &#8220;insiders&#8221; about their views on education issues.<\/p>\n<p>August&#8217;s survey is all about former Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>Whiteboard&#8217;s insiders were evenly split &#8212; 50\/50 &#8212; on whether Bennett should have resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Whiteboard also asked about the effect Bennett&#8217;s resignation will have on Common Core State Standards, whether Florida will ditch the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and other issues &#8212; and that&#8217;s where the fun starts. Even usually boring eduwonks can become as quotable as Oscar Wilde when granted anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteboardadvisors.com\/files\/August%202013%20-%20Education%20Insider%20%28Bennett,%20CA%20Core,%20Gainful%20Employment%29.pdf\">read the full survey here<\/a>, but this is a sampling of the most interesting questions and answers:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What does Tony Bennett&#8217;s resignation mean for Common Core, if anything?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not much. More of a problem for the A-F system.<\/li>\n<li>Two problems: Emboldens the foes even more. Puts FL&#8217;s continued assessment participation in jeopardy.<\/li>\n<li>What did Stonewall Jackson&#8217;s 1863 death mean for the Confederacy? A force already on the ropes loses a major leader.<\/li>\n<li>Bad news since Scott is a wimp.<\/li>\n<li>Not great, but other chiefs can carry it across the finish line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Will Tony Bennett&#8217;s resignation have any impact on Florida remaining in PARCC?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeb Bush and his Foundation for Excellence in Education will work hard to keep Florida in PARCC<\/li>\n<li>He was the state&#8217;s bulwark, the conservative protecting participation in common assessments. And now the Vandals sack Rome.<\/li>\n<li>Teetering before he left, likely now.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Scott seems to be looking for an exit and that&#8217;s a lot easier with Bennett out of the picture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are your impression over the events that led to Tony Bennett resigning?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Considering the AFT\u2019s FOIA request, I think it is a coordinated attack against reformers.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s more to the story than what happened in Indiana. Tony had created problems for himself in Florida.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a sad demise. He was an important leader. He&#8217;ll continue on in the field, but never again in a position of such public visibility. Bennett made a fatal error. Leaders in positions of public trust should never alter results without due public process.<\/li>\n<li>This is the real-world of policy-making, warts and all, not a gauzy Aaron Sorkin production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every month, Washington, D.C.-based education policy firm Whiteboard Advisors anonymously survey &#8220;insiders&#8221; about their views on education issues. August&#8217;s survey is all about former Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett. Whiteboard&#8217;s insiders were evenly split &#8212; 50\/50 &#8212; on whether Bennett should have resigned. Whiteboard also asked about the effect Bennett&#8217;s resignation will have on Common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":19913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1157,643,452],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19915,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions\/19915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}