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Friday, February 1, 2013

Schools Matter: How Jeb Bush's FEE Became the Conduit for Corporate Cash to Make ED Policy

Schools Matter: How Jeb Bush's FEE Became the Conduit for Corporate Cash to Make ED Policy:


How Jeb Bush' FEE Became the Conduit for Corporate Cash to Make ED Policy

Through FOIA, In the Public Interest has acquired hundreds of documents that provide the much-needed links between corporate interests and state and federal education policy makers.  Below is a commentary from IPIand below that are some page views that offer some graphic evidence of the depth of the sewer, which promises to give corruption in education policy entirely new boundaries.

What we find, essentially, is that Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education is the conduit that carries money, communication, lobbying, and logistics for making education policy at the state and federal levels.  Working in conjunction with ALEC to write legislation, this is how policy gets done without public oversight and without elected officials ever getting involved.

What I clipped from the huge stash is enough to give readers an overview of how Jeb Bush's Foundation for