Florida State University has spent $627,567 since 2003 to spin President Bush’s education policies and hired a PR firm to teach charter schools how to be more “media savvy,” The Palm Beach Post‘s Kimberly Miller reports.
Despite conflicting studies on the success of charter schools and other alternative education programs, the School Choice Center at FSU touts them as ways to “increase student achievement, increase parental involvement, promote school improvement through constructive competition, and accomplish racial and ethnic diversity.”
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Check out the School Choice Center’s web site here.
Seems fair to us. Why should journo’s get all the cash?