Jeb Bush on Common Core: High Standards Are Better Than Low Standards

KELLY: “How are you going to get right with the GOP base on this since they feel so overwhelmingly against it?”
BUSH: “I’m going to tell people what I think, which is high standards are better than low standards. I’ll show them the record in Florida where we led the nation in learning gains because we ended social promotion. We had the most dynamic school choice programs in the country. By far, when people begin to see the learning record and where we’re at the bottom of graduation rate and moved to the middle, where Hispanic and low-income kids are now national leaders in Florida compared to their peers and where there’s a focus on ending this political correctness of our time that just casts away thousands and thousands of kids. I’m willing to stand on that record and fight for it.”