Leonie Haimson and I have written an article in the current issue of The Nation about Mayor Bloomberg’s 12-year control of the public schools.
The article unfortunately is behind a pay wall. If you can find a copy at your newsstand or library, I hope you read it. You will find a perspective quite different from the tabloids.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I clicked on the link and got directly to the article. Thank you.
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http://www.thenation.com/article/173896/education-michael-bloomberg#
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Try this:
Love the title! The Education of Michael Bloomberg
http://www.thenation.com/article/173896/education-michael-bloomberg
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And let’s not forget his interference attempts–directly from birth! (Trying to have hospitals lock up baby formula, so that NYC babies would all be breast-fed babies!)
Bloomberg’s legacy (he thinks) is that he has been a benevolent dictator (delete benevolent, however–keep dictator, pure & simple.) NYC=Nanny York City!
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He is, to quote a fellow commentor, the quintessential villainthropist . . . .
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Touche, Robert!
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Bloomberg’s legacy is nothing less than poetic . . .
Ode to Bloomberg:
B . . . . Bastard that he is, no matter how you look at him.
L . . . . Luring big business while ditching the middle class.
O . . . . Oligarch, like what you found in the 1920’s.
O . . . . Omnipotent, which is what he insists he is.
M . . . . Mean spirited, as in the villain you love to hate.
B . . . . Bossy, Biased, and Brainless about education.
E . . . . Elitist, but only about money, not about real talent or merit.
R . . . . Rabid and foaming at the mouth as he dismantles the working class.
G . . . . Greedy, grotesque, his gremlin’s visage, growing profits and gangbusting unions
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