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Tony Bennett’s Emails Reveal His Personal Agenda | Scathing Purple Musings

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Tony Bennett’s Emails Reveal His Personal Agenda

 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Magic of Tony Bennett

In the aftermath of revelations that then superintendent of public education Tony Bennett changed a school grade for the charter school belonging to a wealthy campaign donor, editorial boards from Indiana’s newspapers are weighing in. This from the Lafayette Journal and Courier:
Everyone wondered what took the Indiana Department of Education so long to report its A-to-F grades — a cornerstone of the state’s school accountability push during former Superintendent Tony Bennett’s term.
Now, Hoosiers know why. And it shapes up as one sorry story.
According to emails uncovered by Associated Press reporter Tom LoBianco, Bennett bent over backward — and contorted the system in the process — to find a way for a charter school sponsored by school choice patron Christel DeHaan to do well.
The Journal and Courier includes a batch of the emails that LoBianco obtained at it