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UPDATE: Jeb Bush's education nonprofit rakes in cash + How Truthful are the Bush Foundation’s Assertions About Their Sponsors? | Scathing Purple Musings

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How Truthful are the Bush Foundation’s Assertions About Their Sponsors?

As part of a response to a Mississippi public school advocate in January, Foundation for Excellence in Education CEO Patricia Levesque wrote the following:
(Nancy) 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 organizations dedicated to improving students’ educational success.
We advocate for policies that benefit students, not the interests of one particular non-profit or private entity.
Levesque knows that her claim cannot be verified as the latest financials on FEE come from 2011. And FEE



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