The Carnegie Corporation doesn’t have as much money to throw into the corporate reform movement as the Walton Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Gates Foundation but it is definitely on the same page as the big guys. Here is its report on 2011 spending. The education grants begin on p. 24. And there they are: charter schools, Jeb Bush’s favorite “digital learning,” Common Core, Race to the Top policies, and the usual reformy organizations.
Aren’t we lucky here in Pittsburgh, home of Carnegie, not to be left out also by Gates, and Broad, and Waltons . . . No wonder we feel so beleaguered and battered . . .
Kind of makes sense, since the leadership of their ed programs are refugees from Joel Klein’s ed department. Michelle Cahill was Klein’s “senior counselor to the chancellor for education policy,” and Leah Hamilton was “Executive Director of The Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation.”