Reply #16: George W. Bush (NCLB) laundered to Jeb's! Florida ----> Neil's *educational software* for sale.....

[seafan]

Inquiry Set Into Purchases From Bush Brother’s Firm



Luis M. Alvarez/Associated Press
Ignite Learning is owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.


By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: November 7, 2007

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.

John P. Higgins Jr., the inspector general, said he would review the matter after a group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, detailed at least $1 million in spending from the No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush’s company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex. Mr. Higgins stated his plans in a letter to the group sent last week.

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Members of the group and other critics in Texas contend that school districts are buying Ignite’s signature product, the Curriculum on Wheels, because of political considerations. The product, they said, does not meet standards for financing under the No Child Left Behind Act, which allocates federal money to help students raise their achievement levels, particularly in elementary school reading.

Ignite, founded by Neil Bush in 1999, includes as investors his parents, former President George H. W. Bush and his wife, Barbara. Company officials say that about 100 school districts use the Curriculum on Wheels, known as the Cow, which is a portable classroom with software to teach middle-school social studies, science and math. The units cost about $3,800 each and require about $1,000 a year in maintenance.

Ken Leonard, the vice president and chief financial officer at Ignite, said the company had no way of knowing if districts were using federal money to buy its products.

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Yeah, right.




Jeb!'s Florida was a LARGE beneficiary of Reading First. Isn't that nice.....






More about Neil's *funding*:

Dubai funds Neil Bush's company



And more, for your reading pleasure and horror, from Octafish, from September, 2006:

Know your BFEE: Neil Bush