New Jersey is sharing its riches. Darrell Bradford, formerly of a billionaire-funded group called B4Kids, will move to New York to become CEO of NYCan. This is another of those fake “reform” groups that advocates for privatization as the cure for poverty and the surefire way to get rid of unions.
Jersey Jazzman knows him well and describes his role in advocating for vouchers.
The origin of these CAN groups is Connecticut, where Jonathan Sackler, a billionaire leader in the pharmaceutical industry (see Leonie Haimson’s comments below) and various hedge fund managers organized to advocate for privatization, mayoral control (to speed the pace of privatization), and anti-teacher legislation.
In the psychiatric literature, CAN is an acronym that stands for “child abuse abuse and neglect.”
Welcome to New York, Darrell. If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere, it’s up to you, New York, New York.
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I hope Mr. Bradford is in Lake Placid this weekend so we can “welcome” him to NY — North Country style. #picketinthepines
From the POV of itinerant educrats and edubullies, a normal condition of being part of the ‘creative disruption’ of children’s, parents’ and communities’ lives:
“I go in, fix the system, I move on to something else.” [Paul Vallas]
Link: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Paul-Vallas–213999671.html
English-to-English translation: ‘I sneak in, put the fix in, move on to other prey.’
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It’s such an embarrassment that my state of CT has spawned this cancerous chain of CANs. The original, ConnCAN, and its followers are still ardently infecting CT, bashing public schools and attempting to propagate more and more charter schools, though now they’ve got some leadership competition from other billionaire-funded pro-privatization activist groups, such as CCER and the Northeast Charter Schools Network. With the powerful aid of our state’s education commissioner (who was a CAN and Achievement First founder and came from Cory Booker’s Newark office after working for Mayor Bloomberg in NYC), ConnCAN/AF/and the others forge ahead with the common agenda of “putting the fix in” (to borrow the apt phrase from KrazyTA) for urban school takeovers — all with the blessings of our governor, state board of education, and legislature. Nevertheless, the anti-public schools cabal, with its unlimited resources for misleading PR, huge media buys, and ought-to-be-illegal campaign contributions seems recently to be losing popularity and political influence. Guess they’ve run dry on demeaning slogans and fear-mongering ploys for selling their tainted goods, because parents, legislators, and other prominent leaders are finally beginning to wake up. Sure hope Mayor de Blasio makes life for Darrell appropriately uncomfortable and far less a piece of cake than what he encountered while propagandizing in NJ.
You’ve hit every nail on its head, Fed Up!
Actually CAN was founded not by hedgefunders but by Jonathan Sackler, heir to a Perdue Phama, makers of the controversial drug Oxycontin. Sackler is a big supporter of charter schools, especially Achievement First. As the NY Times reported, “in 2007 Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments to resolve the charge that the company had misled doctors and patients by claiming that the drug’s [Oxycontin’s] long-acting quality made it less likely to be abused than traditional narcotics. The company’s president, medical director and top lawyer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of misbranding and paid more than $34 million in fines”.
As Edushyster noted, http://edushyster.com/?p=386, “Last year alone the drug generated $2.8 billion in sales for Purdue Pharma. And with Purdue desperate to extend the patent on OxyContin, the company recently began testing the drug on children. “
She also points out, “In 2010 his daughter Madeleine released a “documentary” called “The Lottery,” chronicling four New York City kids competing to get into a New York City Charter School. The Wall Street Journal praised the film, noting hopefully that it “could change the national debate about public education.” No mention of Ms. Sackler’s antecedents–or the role of OxyContin sales in funding her film–was ever made.”
It always seems to me that anyone who’s ever been to school thinks they know what should happen in classrooms. If you’ve been to third grade, you know what third grade teachers should do. Since I’ve been a teacher for 35 years I don’t really know much more than someone who went through twelve years of school. After all, I’ve been to the doctor many times, so I could tell the medical establishment how to do things (and maybe even “reform” the whole profession.
thanks for deleting the original ending where you suggest that he should go into sports, finance, or broadcasting, diane. one more correction? i think it’s spelled “derell.”