Meanwhile it has been revealed that when First Lady Barbara Bush donated money for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, her donation came with specific instructions: part of it had to be spent on buying educational software from her son Neil Bush’s company, Ignite Learning. Former President Bush’s chief of staff Jean Becker defended the donation saying “Mrs. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools.” A week after Katrina hit, Barbara Bush was criticized after she told the radio show Marketplace that the relocation to Houston was “working very well” for some of those forced out of New Orleans since they were already underprivileged.