Fla. Schools Chief Resigns Amid Grade-Change Controversy
Florida education commissioner Tony Bennett announces his resignation at a news conference on Thursday in Tallahassee, Fla.
—Steve Cannon/AP
August 1, 2013 | Includes updates and/or revisions.
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Comments Florida Commissioner of Education Tony Bennett today resigned his position, following revelations July 29 that during his tenure as Indiana’s K-12 chief in 2012, he altered the state’s A-F school accountability system after discovering that an Indianapolis charter school that was run by one of his political donors received a lower-than-expected score.
Mr. Bennett, who took over the top Florida education job in January, is a nationally prominent K-12 official who is widely admired in some quarters of the education policy community for his aggressive approach to promoting school choice and school accountability, and for overhauling teacher evaluations in Indiana....
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