Former First Lady Barbara Bush has stuck it the Katrina victims again. The first time was during her visit to the Astrodome, a Hurricane Katrina relief center, on September 5, 2005, when she stated:

"Almost everyone I’ve talked to says, ‘We’re gonna move to Houston.’ What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas… Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality, and so many of the people in the arenas here, you know, were underprivileged anyway. This is working very well for them."
Now, she will get a big tax break while helping her favorite son, Neil Bush, profit off Hurricane Katrina. Mrs. Bush had donated an undisclosed amount of money with instructions that the money should be used for Neil’s software company, Ignite! Learning.
Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.
To cover up the donated funds, she instructed that the money should be sent on a non-Katrina related program, in which that program is to use the money to purchase eight Ignite software programs for "Harris County schools with large numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees."

She gave specific instructions that part of the money be sent to the Scottish Space School Foundation. She asked that group, in turn, to use the money to buy eight Ignite systems — valued at $3,800 each — for Harris County schools with large numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, according to Bush and fund officials.

As to why the money was to be sent to the Scottish Space School Foundation is a mystery. The Scottish Space School Foundation is a joint space program between the Scottish Space Foundation and NASA. The program is intended for Scottish high school students in Scotland to help motivate them to study a science-related field and hopefully pursue a career in science, technology and engineering fields.

The connection between Neil Bush and HISD goes back four years ago. In a 2003 Houston Chronicle article reported by Ron Nissimov, HISD had agreed to purchase the Ignite program back in 2002.  when the school board agreed to purchase $115,000 of Ignite’s eighth-grade U.S. history curriculum. However, the school board told Bush the and the HISD Foundation had to raise "an additional $115,000 to fully fund the program." According to the Houston Chronicle, 17 HISD middle schools and 6 high schools were already  using the Ignite curriculum before the approved the deal in February 2004.

The schools that were already using the Ignite curriculum are: Middle schools - Burbank, Clifton, Deady, Dowling, Edison, Energized for Excellence, Fleming, Fonville, Hartman, Holland, Jackson, Long, McReynolds, Patrick Henry, The Rice School, Stevenson, Woodson; High schools - Austin, Chavez, Furr, Sam Houston, Sterling, Worthing.

Bush and the Foundation agreed solicated the funds from Neil’s wealthy connections in Houston.