The Key to Understanding Corporate Reform

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1. Mom/Educator says:

   January 10, 2013 at 7:09 am

   Thanks for this article Diane, I’m forwarding to local journalists here in NYS who cover education. Also asking them to read your blog to “educate” themselves.

   On a side note, can you please read Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal for education.
   He sites PISA scores and compares us to foreign countries using those to back a longer day. He also mentions several schools that are “state of the art” that we should be striving for. I’m betting those schools mentioned are charters.

   A glimmer of hope though that people like you and your readers are having an impact; he did not come out swinging against “greedy teachers” or “union thugs”, or even mention testing in his budget proposal; however he did support merit pay, longer day.
   Important to watch because he wants to run in 2016.

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2. Tim says:

   January 10, 2013 at 12:05 pm

   Let’s come out and admit to what is going on! The right winged corporations have a strong foothold in politics. The Democratic Party has been snookered and is being bought out, one or two politicians at a time.
   For many years the right wing has been spending heartily in attempts to get their politicians into urban sectors. These urban sectors are mainly black and strong Union supporters.
   Their solution – buy young black “democrats” and back them with big money! Two examples are Adrian Fenty (ex-DC mayor who hired Rhee as chancellor of education, now with Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm which is on Facebook board of directors) and Cory Booker (current mayor of Newark NJ and recipient of $100 million from Facebook). Some of the “coincidences” are that Adrian and Cory actually held fundraisers together, that they are both connected to Rhee, Facebook and Joel Klien and that they are both supporters of “privatization” and right wing corporate “reform”.

   Do you think there is any connection?

   Just follow the money!

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3. DeeDee says:

   January 10, 2013 at 6:43 pm

   Wow. Very good reporting. I wish this would be told nightly on the news. It’s very depressing. The greed makes your head spin. Politicians are all for sale.

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