Ignite! Neil Bush robbing Florida blind with Jeb's help.

[JanMichael]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3334.htm

"05/11/03: (Information Clearing House) This maybe small potatoes by comparison with all the other Bush clan scams, but nevertheless Ignite! Learning has made Neil Bush $20 million over the past three years. Not bad for a guy who ran Silverado S&L into the ground. With accusations of nepotism flying around all over the place, especially now that Neil Bush is trying to get the Florida school system to buy into his learning software (at $30 a pop per student per year), the state that his brother Jeb is governor of, it’s no wonder. Connected is the wholesale privatisation of state services, which opens such areas as education to the predations of people like Neil Bush and indeed, the whole issue of influence peddling."

How can we STOP THESE STINKING BANDITS??!!

[Cha]

1. That's what I have been trying to tell some Floridians who

live there part time and New York the other part of the year.

jeb is stealing Florida!

Now I'll have some more "evidence" to show them.

[oneighty]

15. Curious?

Do your "two- state friends" vote in both states? I live in WNY. Down at the local VFW club a few years ago I overheard a few snowbirds bragging about their two-state voting.

180

[JanMichael]

16. Many vote for public improvements at "home" and against them in FL.

It's really quite the scam.

[XanaDUer]

2. semi on topic

remember how the florida lottery was/is touted as a way "everyone wins" when we all play?

wth happened? the kids around here are selling candy to pay for band uniforms and other so-called, non-essential stuff.

Ah, poor florida. :(

[JanMichael]

5. It was sold as a supplement to the existing funding.

I voted for it for that reason.

Then over the years the original funding was cut and the Lotto money was used to make up the differance which was completely against what we voted for.

We got screwd.

We ALWAYS get screwed.

[XanaDUer]

8. I guess the schtick should be...

"if you don't play, no one will learn"

unfreakin' unbelievable, yet strangely believable considering the cast of players.

[sabbat hunter]

12. NYS lotto

the lotto in New york was always touted as going towards education as well. it was supposed to supplement funds for education not replace them.
but ever since hugh carey and cuomo (carried on by pataki) the lotto money was used for funds cut and not as a supplement.
result?

extremely high property taxes (most of the property taxes paid on long island go to the local school districts)


peace
david
:hippie:

[The Lone Liberal]

3. Lampposts and a stout piece of rope.

That is the only proven and timeworn method of stopping the elite from sacking the public treasury.

[cherryperry]

6. Your post reminds me

of the Judi Collins song called "Marat Sade" - ever heard it?

[cherryperry]

4. Oh, yes, the family that

fucks up everything together :nuke: the world together unless we fight on, fight on, and take back our country in 2004. Unite, don't infight and we can do it (honest)! :party:

[JackSwift]

7. Publicize it

If this isn't a brotherly nepotism deal, then other states will be choosing the program too. Bet they aren't.

Neal and Marvin are the family bag men.

Oh, and if it is a publicly traded company, buy a share so you can get the reports and attend the annual meetings.

[JanMichael]

9. I think I'll try to do a piece about it next Saturday.

On the show.

But how do we get the message out to a bigger audiance?

[matt819]

10. This is, of course, despicable

But it would be even more interesting if a FL DUer could provide us with a copy of said program so that we can see the kind of RW tripe that is being inculcated into Florida's youth.

[JanMichael]

13. It's a joke.

http://www.ignitelearning.com/company.shtml

Looks like they're in Ohio too: http://www.ignitelearning.com/ourproduct/pdfs/IgniteEAHOhioCorrelations.pdf

They also had a video called "Manifest Destiny" that was a hoot. I can't find it now though.

[sandnsea]

11. And Bill Bennett & Florida Virtual Academy

This K12 program is all over the place. It's quite a scam. They create 'virtual' schools using Bennett's software. His company gets the vast majority of the per kid state funding, basically for providing software to homeschoolers. In other states they pick a poor school to oversee the virtual students. The poor school receives a small percentage of that $5,000 or whatever amount from the state, K12 Inc (Bennett) gets the rest.

http://www.flva.org/

"In response to the Department's request for proposals, K12 Inc. has proposed to establish a Florida Virtual Academy that would offer K12's curriculum and services through this new school program."

www.k12.com

Click here for the K12 Patriotism Lesson or the K12 Virtues program.

http://www.k12.com/curriculum/products.html

or

Click here to access the FREE online portion of K12 Virtues, with downloadable coloring pages and additional reading resources.

http://information.k12.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?q=STcA4TFIBpe$A

[JanMichael]

14. Oh man.

They've got their greedy tenticals everywhere...

[Clete]

17. Not only Florida, Texas, the National Treasury and coming

soon, what they didn't get out of California the first time during the energy crisis. These people are nothing but gangsters and for the life of me I can't figure out why there isn't a revolution from the left about this.

[madfloridian]

18. Notice this paragraph about 1 school getting millions!

http://www.naplesnews.com/02/10/florida/d799030a.htm

SNIP...."Texas-based Ignite Inc. makes software being used in a pilot program at an Orlando-area middle school to help students prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which the governor has championed as a yardstick for school performance.

Ocoee Middle School, which has received millions of dollars in state grants to study ways of lowering costs, is using the software for free. But a company spokeswoman said Saturday that Ignite soon hopes to sell its early American history course to other Florida schools, at a cost of $30-a-year per-student....."

Millions for a county, or district, maybe, but not for one school. That makes no sense at all. Sounds like they got the money from the state.