Spotlight on Jeb Bush’s K-12 Group as New Chief Takes Over
By Andrew Ujifusa
Education Week
February 3, 2015
Jeb Bush’s decision to turn over leadership of the prominent K-12 organization he founded to Condoleezza Rice as he mulls a White House bid could signal a new phase for the Foundation for Excellence in Education—and for a broader network of advocacy groups seeking to challenge what they view as the status quo in education.
When Jeanne Allen, the founder and longtime leader of the Washington-based Center for Education Reform, which supports school choice, heard the news of Ms. Rice’s new position, she thought it was a “brilliant move.” But Ms. Allen warned against seeing any connection between Ms. Rice’s post and Jeb Bush’s possible presidential ambitions.
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