When a bright young man or woman gets an idea to replace experienced educators with inexperienced tyros and is quickly funded by billionaire foundations, you can guess that the ultimate goal is privatization. For one thing, the enterprise rests on a base claim that “our schools are failing,” and that experience is irrelevant and probably harmful.
Tom Ultican recounts the origin story of one such organization: New Leaders for New Schools.
The idea was so spot-on that the organization attracted millions of dollars from the plutocrats of privatization: Eli Broad, Bill Gates, the Walton Family Foundation, and many more.
Where are the miracle schools led by New Leaders? That’s a hard question to answer.
What Ultican demonstrates is the continuing relevance of New Leaders for New Schools. One of its illustrious graduates was behind the recent decision by the board of the Oakland Unified School District to resume closing schools, despite overwhelming opposition by students, parents, and educators.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
POC associated with Obama and Clinton are making book by siding with colonialists- enough that it makes a pattern.
Loretta Lynch is the latest, “How Lynch found herself…on the wrong side of history.” (Huffpo). Clyburn, in promoting Judge Childs for SCOTUS is another. And, the number engaged in destroying public education in the employ of billionaires is heartbreaking.
For another “thing”, an enterprise that rests
on opinions or ideas, in the strict sense
of the word, prejudices, for one, the
hierarchical catagorization, the violation
of personhood, the sort and separate of
TESTING, continues to usurp humanity.
Personal worth, belonging and cohesion,
be damned. Alienation and separation,
FEATURES not BUGS of systemic
catagorization, institutional “thinking”.
Mount the high horse of indignation,
bang the division bell, shout democracy,
as if the selection of mascot #45,
WASN’T an expression of the
collective DUH untouched by the
conventional “wisdom” of institutional
“thinking”…