If Jeb Bush Runs for President, Remember This. If Jeb Bush should run for President, this article bears re-reading.
Bush spoke at a rightwing policy conference in Michigan, where he “trashed” public schools. “MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Jeb Bush praised charter schools and slammed traditional public schools and teachers unions in a speech here Wednesday, saying that public education “dumbs down standards to make adults look better,” a phrase often used by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “We must expand [school] choice,” said Bush, delivering a keynote speech at the annual Mackinac Policy Conference in northern Michigan.
A Nation at Risk. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform is the title of the 1983 report of American President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education.
Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history. Among other things, the report contributed to the ever-growing assertion that American schools were failing,[1][2] and it touched off a wave of local, state, and federal reform efforts. Formation and motivation[edit] The commission consisted of 18 members, drawn from the private sector, government, and education. The chair of the commission was David Pierpont Gardner.[3] Secretary of Education T. No Child Left Behind Act. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)[1][2] is a United States Act of Congress that is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which included Title I, the government's flagship aid program for disadvantaged students.[3] NCLB supports standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education.
The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states must give these assessments to all students at select grade levels. The Act does not assert a national achievement standard. Each individual state develops its own standards.[4] NCLB expanded the federal role in public education through annual testing, annual academic progress, report cards, teacher qualifications, and funding changes.[3] The bill passed in the U.S. Legislative history[edit]
Scienceguide: G.W. Bush The Education President. 20 december 2010 - 11 september 2001 zou de dag van de finale doorbraak worden in de ambitie van George W.
Bush, om als ‘the education president’ de Amerikaanse geschiedenis in te gaan. De dag ook die de alliantie zou bezegelen tussen twee grote dynastieën, de Kennedy’s en de Bushes. In zijn memoires schildert president Bush met nadruk zijn visie en ambities op onderwijsterrein. Ignite! Learning - Home. Katrina funds earmarked to pay for Neil Bush's software program. Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.
Since then, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight area schools that took in substantial numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. "Mrs. Katrina Donation Ignites Debate. As Barbara Bush spent two hours championing her son's software company at a Houston middle school Thursday morning, a watchdog group questioned whether the former first lady should be allowed to channel a donation to Neil Bush's Ignite Learning company through Houston's Hurricane Katrina relief fund.
"It's strange that the former first lady would want to do this. If her son's having a rough time of it, couldn't she write him a check? " said Daniel Borochoff, founder of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a Chicago-based charity watchdog group. "Maybe she isn't aware that people could frown upon this. " Some critics said donations to a tax-deductible charitable fund shouldn't benefit the Bush family.
HISD officials said the event at Fleming Middle School, where Bush met with 40 educators and business leaders, did not violate policy. No Bush Left Behind. Across the country, some teachers complain that President George W.
Bush's makeover of public education promotes "teaching to the test. " The President's younger brother Neil takes a different tack: He's selling to the test. The No Child Left Behind Act compels schools to prove students' mastery of certain facts by means of standardized exams. Pressure to perform has energized the $1.9 billion-a-year instructional software industry. Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
The Return of Neil Bush Thank goodness the "return" doesn't refer to education. We can hope Neil is done with meddling in education. Go to the Ignite! (Yes, the company still exists) and you won't find one mention of Neil Bush, not even in history. Foundation for Excellence in Education. Corporate Interests Pay to Play to Shape Education Policy, Reap profits. Emails Show Bush-Led Organization's ALEC-Like Role in State Policymaking Emails between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), founded and chaired by former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush, and state education officials show that the foundation is writing state education laws and regulations in ways that could benefit its corporate funders. The emails, obtained through public records requests, reveal that the organization, sometimes working through its Chiefs For Change affiliate, wrote and edited laws, regulations and executive orders, often in ways that improved profit opportunities for the organization's financial backers. E-mails link Bush foundation, corporations and education officials. George and Jeb Bush (Jason Reed/Reuters) A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials in states to write education laws that could benefit some of its corporate funders.
A call to the foundation has not been returned. The e-mails are between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) and a group Bush set up called Chiefs for Change, whose members are current and former state education commissioners who support Bush’s agenda of school reform, which includes school choice, online education, retention of third-graders who can’t read and school accountability systems based on standardized tests.
That includes evaluating teachers based on student test scores and grading schools A-F based on test scores. E-Mails Show Jeb Bush Foundation Lobbied For Businesses, Including One Tied To Bush. Share Jeb Bush, right, speaks to reporters after an education rally in Little Rock, Ark., on Jan. 29, 2013.
(AP Photo/Danny Johnston.) A public interest group has released the results of a multi-state Freedom of Information Act request concerning the lobbying efforts by the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), the nonprofit led by Jeb Bush. The e-mails confirm previous reporting showing that Bush’s policies are designed to benefit businesses seeking to privatize public education—particularly the companies that finance Bush's nonprofit. What's new in this release, however, is the revelation that Bush could be using his education reform crusade for personal gain.
SendHub Takes On Google Voice With Debut Of Shared Groups; Grabs New Investment From Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. SendHub, the messaging startup backed by $2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Kapor Capital, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups and others, is today announcing a highly in-demand new feature with the launch of Shared Groups, as well as a notable new investor: Jeb Bush, 43rd Governor of Florida. This is the first startup investment for the former Republican governor, and one which saw the politician approaching SendHub, instead of the other way around.
Garrett Johnson, who founded SendHub with Ash Rust in 2011, first got his start in politics working for Bush and still serves on the board of one of Bush’s foundations. Johnson says he sent the politician an article about SendHub, and Bush asked him if there was an opportunity to invest. How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools.
This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of “virtual schools”—charters operated online, with teachers instructing students over the Internet—as well as one of the first to use vouchers to channel taxpayer money to charter schools run by for-profits. Ravitch: Jeb Bush: Change the Rules of the Game and Win. Matt Di Carlo of the Shanker Institute here dissects the claims of Jeb Bush about the success of the state letter grade system. As he shows, the number of A-rated schools went up because the state changed the rules of the game.
You can always get more points on the basketball court if you drop the basket a foot or two. You can get more home runs if you bring the fences closer. Are people foolish enough to believe the boast that Florida is now a model for the nation? What About the Good Charters? UPDATE. Jeb Bush’s organization tweeted on the morning of February 20 that I “liken school choice to Nazi invasion.” Whoever posted that tweet under the name of Jeb Bush’s organization either maliciously ignored the fact that the first sentence of the post says that the post was written by a parent, or was confused by the formatting.
I did not liken school choice to a Nazi invasion, period. I can’t do anything to diminish the malice of others, but I did revise the post to insert the words, “she writes” to make clear where her comment begins. And I added the link to the Naison-Bernstein post to which the comment refers. Jeb Bush Hires His Biggest Cheerleader To Smear Ravitch. This one starts with yet another gilded reformy-type falling on his fainting couch: Diane Ravitch has hit a new low in the hyperbole she allows on her blog site.This was written about charter schools:“But the privatizers declared war on our schools, our kids, our teachers, our parents and our taxpayers. “We didn’t start this war, any more than Poland in 1939. But we must fight back.
And ultimately, emerge victorious. “And when you’re in a war, and you’re defending the lives of your community, unfortunately, nuance or thoughtful qualifications become luxuries we can no longer afford.” Jeb Bush's Shill: What Conflict of Interest? Lehman hires Jeb Bush as private equity advisor. Play revolving door.
Corporate Accountability. If the national movement to "reform" public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. Calling Jeb Bush! Calling Arne Duncan! Talk to this teacher! Revised! Foundation for Excellence in Education Jeb Bush founder Chairman. Jeb Bush Says Education Film Will Be 'Game-Changing' For Reform Movement. Home / Foundation for Florida's Future. Chiefs for Change. Southern Methodist University - SMU. Home - George W. Bush Presidential Center.
SMU is home to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which consists of the presidential archives, containing documents and artifacts of the Bush Administration; a museum with permanent and traveling exhibits; and an independent public policy institute. The Center will be dedicated on April 25, 2013, and will open to the public on May 1, 2013. It will have an exterior of red brick and limestone, as well as landscaping that includes a restored prairie, a woodland and wildflower meadow. George W. Bush Presidential Center. AREL: George W. Bush Presidential Center. Laura Bush expected to unveil major public school reform program, an initiative of SMU's George W. Bush Institute. Laura Bush expected to unveil major public school reform program, an initiative of SMU's George W. Bush Institute.
Wendy Kopp. Wendy Sue Kopp (born June 29, 1967) is the Founder and Chair of the Board of Teach For America (TFA), a national teaching corps. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations that apply the same model as Teach For America in other countries. Background[edit] Teach For America. Brett Wigdortz, Teach First. Teach First Home. Teach First. Teach First is a social enterprise that aims to address educational disadvantage in England and Wales. Teach For All. Teach For All is a global network of independent social enterprises working to expand educational opportunity in their countries by enlisting talented future leaders to the effort. These organizations recruit leaders of all academic disciplines to commit to two years to teach in high-need areas and to work throughout their lives to address the root causes of educational need.
Teach For All. Teach For All. Teach For All is a global network of independent social enterprises working to expand educational opportunity in their countries by enlisting talented future leaders to the effort. McKinsey & Company. Skoll Foundation.
Skoll Foundation. Jeffrey Skoll first emplyee/president ebay. Commitment to Advance Education. Deutsche Post. Deutsche Post DHL and Teach For All launch global partnership. Deutsche Post DHL and Teach For All launch global partnership. S.M.U. Faculty Complains About Bush Library. Bush and Cheney Reunite at Library Groundbreaking. George W. Bush Presidential Center: Education Reform. George W. Bush Presidential Center Education Reform Leadership. George W. Bush Presidential Center. Preparing Our Youth for the Military-Industrial Complex and Global Competition. Jeb Bush’s Education Reform Ideas Are Just a Big Corporate Giveaway by Daniel Luzer. ScienceGuide - Education for President.