Jeb Bush on Disrupting the Education Monopoly

As governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, Jeb Bush championed school choice. His first year in office he created a program that offered vouchers to students in failing schools. The program successfully boosted student achievement until it was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2006. Two other Bush-supported programs -- one that offers tax credits to business that help send low-income kids to private schools and another that gives vouchers to disabled students --- survived the high-court ruling. Bush also expanded the Florida Virtual School, a national model for online public education.

Since leaving office, Bush has promoted his reform agenda in other states. He founded the Foundation for Excellence in Education and serves as co-chair of the Digital Learning Council.

Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie sat down with Bush at the National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C., to talk about how information technology can help break the education monopoly.

This interview is part of National School Choice Week, an initiative to raise awareness of how competition and choice can transform public education.

Approximately 6.30 minutes. Filmed by Jim Epstein and Meredith Bragg, and edited by Epstein.

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[sparsematrix]

How did Jeb and W come from the same parents?

[englanddg]

What a crock...Jeb is tossing out phrases without knowing what it means...

I am sick of lazy people looking for an excuse turning to technology that they don't understand and saying "Well, that's the solution"...

What a crock...

[dirtbagcatholics]

@Aeronomer> libtard-commie-progtard media < What? The sheep of the world are told what to think, feel, know, and puke up... by those who establish "mandatory sacred cows" This Jeb Bush found the biggest sacred cow...THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EMPIRE.. and leached on.

[dirtbagcatholics]

school vouchers... free taxpayer money for catholic schools. Another way for THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EMPIRE to get you and me to pay for arrogant rats who are better and more elite than our own sons and daughters.

this guy is knights of columbus...too dumb to realize that they can steal more money with one .45 than with all their phony swords and chicken feathers combined... No need to steal the ammunition.. the weapon (empty) would suffice.

[somersetdc]

Be very afraid of the Bush Family !!

This is actually about privatizing education. It means using tax dollars to fund private education companies, i.e. chartered schools and other fop-profit, wall street controled companies. It is cloaked as school choice and dressed up...but it is about redistributing wealth. You can be assured that privatization causes money to flow up-hill to the elites who create these schools, lobby for these schools, and sit on corporate boards for these companies.

[englanddg]

@bigbobby17 - Yeah, sorry, a few jack and cokes doesn't make for the most articulate post on my part...

It's a personal beef of mine, so I ranted a bit...It annoys me when the discussion turns to technology, rather then addressing results. Technology is great, but proposing there might some day be some "perfect educational technology" is not an excuse for poor performance. However, it is often it is used as such by politicians who want to secure funding, and academic apologists.

[bigbobby17]

@englanddg I honestly don't think you know what your talking about. Please explain........

[bigbobby17]

@englanddg I honestly don't think you know what your talking about.

[mistax2k]

salman khan!

[Jotto999]

Is this man really related to George W. Bush? Such polarity.  Well, I'm now a fan of him.

[CORPARANOID]

Hybrid Education -- supported or owned by WHO? Is anyone else in the BUSH family involved in this Education process? The BUSHES do nothing that is NOT planned for a REASON folks - making money & supporting THEIR FAMILY. Barbara's Katrina donation was to the school system, ...interesting that her one son had the program and the other son was in the White House. So instead of PARENTs standing up for their KIDS education, homework, skill set, critical thinking... its the government SLAVE-TEACH.

[sleedolfine15]

@jsebastianfilms That's something I did not know. I did'nt know that the fact that you are related to someone makes you the same as that person. Are you your brother? Are you your father? If you believe that then you are a fool. Jeb Bush actually has a decent record. Look it up. When he became Governor of Florida,Florida ranked dead last in educational achievement,but,after 8 years of Bush led reforms,Florida was near the top. I think that the wrong Bush made it to the White House.