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THE ROTTEN APPLES IN EDUCATION AWARDS 2003

January 7, 2004  ·  By Gerald Bracey

EducationNews.org, Jan 7, 2003

For a while, it looked as if Paul Krugman's prediction, "Toward One Party Rule," was coming true in a way that he probably hadn't anticipated. It appeared that the Republican Party in general and Jeb Bush in particular might corner the market on the annual Rotten Apples in Education Awards. It didn't happen, but the erstwhile Florida Governor did pick up three and with a stretch, might have been given several others for plotting to fabricate reasons to dump a donor, for the falsification of government documents, shoddy oversight of the voucher program, etc.