Former Gov. Jeb Bush to talk education with McDonnell

By: Olympia Meola | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: February 08, 2012

With key elements of his K-12 education agenda hitting committees this week, Gov. Bob McDonnell is getting support from a former governor.

McDonnell will hold a tele-town hall with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Republican State Leadership Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie this evening to discuss McDonnell’s “Opportunity to Learn” education agenda.

Bush is founder and chairman of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, an organization created “to ignite a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st century.”

McDonnell’s political operation is arranging the call and invite list.

Major pieces of the governor’s K-12 education agenda are coming before the House Education Committee this morning, including his effort to overhaul the public school teacher contract and evaluation process.

He originally sought annual evaluations and contracts but the bill has been amended to give teachers and principals three-year term contracts. Teachers who have continuing contracts would keep them unless they switched school divisions, in which case they would switch to term contracts.

Also, the governor wants to change the way the state funds virtual school students.

Under the proposed legislation, students who enroll in virtual school programs would be funded based on where they live, not where they enroll. The per pupil amount of local and state funds would be capped at $6,500.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush to talk education with McDonnell

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