From the Washington Post: Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, moving closer to a possible
presidential run, has resigned all of his corporate and nonprofit board
memberships, including with his own education foundation, his office
said late Wednesday night. He also resigned as a paid adviser to a
for-profit education company that sells online courses to public
university students in exchange for a share of their tuition payments... Bush’s financial stake in Academic Partnerships, the online education
firm, has been relatively small for a millionaire — a $60,000-a-year
fee and ownership of a small amount of stock, said Randy Best, the
company’s founder and chief executive. Even so, Bush’s affiliation with
the firm — which has contracts with schools in a half-dozen states and
several foreign countries and has annual sales of $100 million — could
complicate his effort to promote his record as an education reformer. The
company receives up to 70 percent of the tuition some students pay to
public universities, and some faculty members say it siphons money from
the schools while asserting too much control over academic decisions...
Full story at http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2014/12/31/938b3662-9054-11e4-a900-9960214d4cd7_story.html
At one time, there might have been less difficulty with presidential MOOcs. Below is a photo of President Taft's pet - not at the White House - but in front of the neighboring building - now the executive office building.
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