Charter Schools foundation associated with ALEC, Jeb Bush, corporations that benefit

E-mails link Bush foundation, corporations and education officials:
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.

…He said companies ask the foundation to help state officials pass laws and regulations that make it easier to expand charter schools, require students to take online education courses, and do other things that could result in business and profits for them.

…There are strong connections between FEE and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)…

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