{"id":246,"date":"2011-07-26T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=246"},"modified":"2011-07-26T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:08:43","slug":"n-m-lawmakers-question-education-candidates-ties-to-florida-reform-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/07\/26\/n-m-lawmakers-question-education-candidates-ties-to-florida-reform-group\/","title":{"rendered":"N.M. Lawmakers Question Education Candidate&#8217;s Ties to Florida Reform Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico Democrats are skeptical of Hanna Skandera, candidate for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2011\/07\/26\/news\/democrats-grill-skandera-about-outside-consultants.html\">state&#8217;s top education post<\/a>, and her ties to the Foundation For Excellence in Education founded by former Florida Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/jeb-bush\/\">Gov. Jeb Bush<\/a>, according to the <em>Albuquerque Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several legislators were concerned Jeb Bush\u2019s Foundation for Excellence in Education has too much influence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like, to me anyway, that the Foundation for Excellence in  Education sort of is driving the ship here, in terms of the kinds of  reforms that are going to be taking place in New Mexico,\u201d said Rep.  Eleanor Chavez, D-Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>Skandera worked on Jeb Bush\u2019s education team, and aspects of her reform agenda are from the \u201cFlorida model.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.abqjournal.com\/zipcodetest.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico Democrats are skeptical of Hanna Skandera, candidate for the state&#8217;s top education post, and her ties to the Foundation For Excellence in Education founded by former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Several legislators were concerned Jeb Bush\u2019s Foundation for Excellence in Education has too much influence. \u201cIt sounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[67,1026],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}