COUPON SAVINGS UP TO Pro Football Hall of Fame Super Bowl XLIX Dungy, Lynch denied $1,627 Patriots vs. Seahawks Junior Seau is among Class of 2015, but the former Bucs will have to wait. Sports, 1C $252 IN COUPONS $1,375 IN OTHER SAVINGS 6:30 p.m., University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz. TV: Ch. 8. Preview, 1C tampabay.com FLORIDA’S BEST NEWSPAPER SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015 | $1.50 The link that won’t be let go Partnering with Obama on education may haunt Jeb Bush for 2016. BY ALEX LEARY Times Washington Bureau Chief Standing before a massive American flag, Jeb Bush began a withering attack on President Barack Obama. “On energy, he waffles. On immigration, he hasn’t led. On foreign policy, he doesn’t lead, even from behind. On the family, he is captive to the special interest of the left.” On the economy, “he is an utter and complete failure.” The speech came at a June 2013 dinner for the Conservative Party of New York State, foreshadowing Bush’s entry in the 2016 presidential race. But the indictment conspicuously avoided the subject the former Florida governor knows best: education. Bush and Obama have been unlikely partners on education, sharing similar goals, praising each other publicly and appearing together at a high school in Miami as Obama was gearing up for re-election. Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, has often cited Bush and twice spoken at Bush’s annual education summit. They have met privately about five times since 2010, according to the Department of Education. Bush’s problem over the Common Core education standards is well known, but the backstory is his symbiotic relationship with the Obama adminis- President Barack Obama greets former Gov. Jeb Bush before speaking at Miami Central Senior High School on March 4, 2011. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is at center. tration and the political crumbling of a reform movement that Bush once led but is now a liability as he faces the GOP nominating gantlet. The shift could do for Bush what health care did for Mitt Romney, who as governor of Massachusetts oversaw reforms that served as a basis for Obamacare. With Republicans hostile toward Obama on all fronts and . See EDUCATION, 11A Associated Press (2011) Feeling like a victim, twice Gasparilla | 100th parade of pirates AHOY, MATEYS A school’s response to a 12-year-old girl’s sex assault violates Title IX, experts charge. BY LISA GARTNER AND ZACHARY T. SAMPSON Times Staff Writers EVE EDELHEIT | Times The Jose Gasparilla is surrounded by other boats as it heads toward downtown Tampa during the 2015 Gasparilla Invasion on Saturday. Tens of thousands of bead-crazed revelers from across the Tampa Bay region celebrated the 100th parade of pirates conquering the city, an annual event that began modestly in 1904 and has been interrupted only a handful of times. Law enforcement officers said there were no incidents to speak of, with preliminary estimates showing only 24 arrests, about half of last year’s total. Story, 1B. More photos, 6B. Holding out an unproven hope No research backs a doctor’s claims that stem cell therapy will aid lung diseases. BY JODIE TILLMAN Times Staff Writer TAMPA — Dr. Burton Feinerman has spent more than a decade using stem cell therapies that are banned in the United States, sending desperate families to Peru seeking treatments for their babies’ terminal conditions like Tay-Sachs disease. The therapies are costly and unproven, and no insurer will cover them. But there is no law against a U.S. doctor recommending them, as long as they aren’t performed here. Now the 85-year-old pediatrician is focusing on a stem cell therapy he can perform in Tampa, for seniors with such incurable lung conditions as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Feinerman, medical director of the Tampa-based Lung Institute, says In Floridian Where broken lives heal For women in the Pinellas County Jail, the Red Tent room offers hope amid tears and growth. lung patients tend to get the most benefit from stem cell therapies. And he can treat them in the United States because he is re-infusing patients with their own stem cells, a legal process under certain circumstances. But it’s not approved as a lung disease therapy in this country. Neither the American Lung Association nor the International Society for Stem Cell . See STEM CELLS, 13A IN LATITUDES In her city of art How Margaret Acheson Stuart launched the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg 50 years ago. 2L Lung Institute Dr. Feinerman’s claims of success are mostly anecdotal, like the testimonial of “Vickie B.” on the Tampa-based Lung Institute’s website. IN BUSINESS It’s primal time A St. Petersburg couple aim to make inroads in the pet food market with natural treats such as elk antlers and duck feet. 1D ST. PETERSBURG — It was almost too heavy for her to carry, but she fell for the saxophone all the same, practicing in the band room at John Hopkins Middle School. She named her instrument “Reed.” It made her feel calm. She would come in an hour early to play. She would stay long after the last bell. Then one recent Monday, the 12-year-old girl hurried out of school. She was pale. Her face was drawn. “Come on, get your coat on,” her mother said, waiting in the car line. The girl didn’t move. She was looking at the sky. “Let’s go, get your coat on,” her mother tried again. The girl blinked a few times. Just before she burst into tears, she said, “I’ve had the worst day of my life.” She told her mother, then police, that a 12-year-old classmate had assaulted her in the small storage space off the band room. First she heard laughter. Then she saw his feet on either side of her. She was bent over as he rubbed up against her buttocks, thrusting. Other boys yelled: “She’s your ho!” In the days that followed, school administrators characterized the attack as horseplay, failed to offer the girl counseling and refused to even attempt to transfer the boy to another school, her parents said. They never mentioned to the parents that the federal Title IX law protects students who are victims of sexual assault, nor did they provide a Title IX liaison, as the law requires. . 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