{"id":226,"date":"2007-06-12T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:27:40","slug":"poking-yecke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Poking Yecke"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Orlando Sentinel newspaper columnist pokes Cheri Yecke a little<\/a> concerning the\u00c2\u00a0open education commissioner job:<\/p>\n

Keep an eye on . . . Cheri Yecke. The state’s education-commissioner job is vacant. And, as the state’s K-12 chancellor, Yecke might seem like a likely applicant. But that would be a mistake. Jeb Bush, after all, brought in a lightning rod when he hired Yecke in 2005. Before that, she had a similar job in Minnesota — and was involved in one controversy after another. There were debates over evolution, creationism, revisionist history and more. In fact, the Minnesota Legislature ultimately tossed her out of her job there before Jeb scooped her up. Yecke actually hasn’t done much pot-stirring since she came to Florida. But Charlie Crist has taken too many moderate strides and made too many promises about education reform to start taking chances here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Orlando Sentinel newspaper columnist pokes Cheri Yecke a little concerning the\u00c2\u00a0open education commissioner job: Keep an eye on . . . Cheri Yecke. The state’s education-commissioner job is vacant. And, as the state’s K-12 chancellor, Yecke might seem like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-3E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=281","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":0},"title":"Oh no! Yecke in the top three.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Your top three candidates for Florida Education Commissioner are: Joseph Marinelli, Eric Smith and Cheri Yecke. Here are some good points made by the Palm Beach Post: Pick an education leader who will break with Jeb Cheri Pierson Yecke is the kind of candidate to avoid. ... Dr. Yecke followed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Alert"","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":184,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=184","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":1},"title":"Yecke to seek Fl education commissioner job","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I had missed this news tidbit a while back. A couple of people have declined to step into the Florida education commissioner job. One person eager to jump in, though, is Cheri Yecke. 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Friday is the deadline to turn in the paperwork. This article says that State Rep. Joe Pickens isn't going to apply. The story goes on to say: His withdrawal leaves several front-runners for the position: Jim Warford,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=236","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":5},"title":"Update to current Yecke controversy","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The following news release was submitted to Florida media. New Information Points to Dr. Yecke Trying to Revise History Dr. Cheri Pierson Yecke is apparently trying to revise history and has now been caught in the act. 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