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Jeb Bush’s Marketing and Sales Seminar Disguised as an Education Summit | Scathing Purple Musings

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Jeb Bush’s Marketing and Sales Seminar Disguised as an Education Summit

No single individual has influenced the changes the nation has witnessed to its entire education apparatus than former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Later this month, his Foundation for Excellence in Education will host it’s annual summit. It comes as no surprise the summit’s speaker list doesn’t include anyone remotely friendly to public schools. (State superintendents of Bush’s Chief’s for Change certainly don’t count). And the titles to the presentation panels read more like a those one expect at a sales motivation seminar. Here’s some:

“Don’t Let a Financial Crisis Go To Waste”

“Rebooting