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Tony Bennett is currently the Florida Education Commissioner. Before that, however, he had the same job in Indiana. He developed a no nonsense reputation supporting charter schools and vouchers and pledging to hold failing or substandard schools accountable. But when the Charter School run a Republican mega-donor, Christel DeHaan, came up with an embarasing grade of a C on Bennett’s A-F system, he and his scrambled to find a way to make that C turn into an A. Here’s the story.