Big Brother? How About Baby Brother? Jeb Bush’s Education Privatization Group Has Child-Harming Emails Unearthed
The non-profit group In the Public Interest has released thousands of e-mails that link former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s education reform foundation, Chiefs for Change, to corporations and education officials who are attempting to help state legislators write laws that will directly benefit their organizations financially. The emails are primarily between Chiefs for Change and the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) which both share a vision of for-profit education fueled by charter schools, online education and standardized testing. The groups share many of the same donors and officials as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which is pushing for a similar “education” agenda.
The ties between the groups and ALEC do not stop at surface similarities:
There are strong connections between FEE and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy:
Aptly named FEE, Bush’s group is backed by many of the same for-profit school corporations that have funded ALEC and vote as equals with its legislators on templates to change laws governing America’s public schools. FEE is also bankrolled by many of the same hard-right foundations bent on privatizing public schools that have funded ALEC. And, they have pushed many of the same changes to the law,
