Reply #7: It's Neil [View All]

[teach1st]

The company is "Ignite":
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3334.htm



This is from a "disgruntled teacher" web site I run (tuff-teach.com)

http://www.tuff-teach.com/pcs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2145&highlight=Neil+Bush



Here's some more Bush hijinks, but it's posted in our "private" area - district teachers only. The link to the article is broken, but here's some of the post.

By Emily J. Minor, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 20, 2003

With more state tests around the corner, and with the parents of some third-graders panicking about their kids' performance portfolios, I was thrilled this week to find out about a little something called www.fcatexplorer.com.

(snip)

The Bush administration gave a multimillion-dollar job to a campaign supporter without putting the contract out to bid. The Web site is helping our kids study for a test that many teachers, parents and administrators believe is reducing classroom instruction to formula teaching -- "teaching to the test." That said, one-fourth of our third-graders still can't read.