Former Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett Gets a Big, Fat 'F' for Fiddling with Charter School Grades
Detractors of public education received a big blow last week when it was revealed that former Indiana schools superintendent Tony Bennett manipulated the state's school grading formula to ensure a charter school run by a major Republican donor received an "A" grade.
Bennett, who was just recently Florida's education commissioner before he resigned last week, was pressured to step down after the Associated Press published the following email to his chief of staff:
This will be a HUGE problem for us….They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work.
