CEO Patricia Levesque’s Misleading Defense of Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education
Within her response to Mississippi parent advocate, Nancy Loome, Foundation for Excellence in Education CEO, Patricia Levesque included this:
Loome notes that we take funding from for-profit providers. In fact, more than 90 percent of the Foundation’s budget comes from family foundations or philanthropic organizationsdedicated to improving students’ educational success.Levesque should know that this claim can no longer be verified. Less than a year ago, the foundation she runs
We advocate for policies that benefit students, not the interests of one particular non-profit or private entity.
