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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Has Jeb Bush’s Foundation Created a Faux Parents Group to Support Parent Trigger? | Scathing Purple Musings

Has Jeb Bush’s Foundation Created a Faux Parents Group to Support Parent Trigger? | Scathing Purple Musings:


Has Jeb Bush’s Foundation Created a Faux Parents Group to Support Parent Trigger?

Scathing Purple Musings discovered last August that Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future (FFF) had created a petition to support its efforts to pass Parent Trigger. Not many had signed the petition and many of the one’s who did were employees of one of Bush’s two foundations. At the time of the post, top Bush advisor Patricia Levesque even signed the petition twice. Shortly after the August post was published, Levesque’s June 12 signature disappeared.
At any rate, the petition is back. Only this time with new packaging. Sunshine Parents has this mini-documentary film  that was sent to legislators during the past week and includes  this note:
We want to be sure our sons and daughters are getting the very best educational opportunities, regardless of circumstances. The voices of all families should be heard in decisions about how to improve schools and where and what type of school our children attend. Senate Bill 862 and House