The Washington Post reported Sunday on Bush's plans to start a new think tank, the Freedom Institute, which will include an education component:
Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation, said the policy institute will be built around several key themes, including "freedom, compassion, opportunity and individual responsibility.""It's really a place where you're trying to advance effective policy solutions above a partisan level," Langdale said. "He's made clear that history will be a judge of his legacy. The purpose of the institute is to be more forward-looking."
Margaret Spellings, Bush's education secretary and longtime friend, said in an interview last week that she expects the policy center to focus on "game-changing" initiatives such as the schools testing program called No Child Left Behind. "There will be a dimension of trying to keep these policies current and in context with whatever is happening at the time," she said.
So he apparently will join brother Jeb in the education think tank world. I'll be curious whether they collaborate or compete on this issue, and I submit that any scorecard should show Jeb Bush in the lead--in Florida, ??No Child Left Behind proved inferior to the state-level reforms already in place.
