In addition to holding a Ph.D. in research methods and teaching high school English in Louisiana, Mercedes Schneider has become infatuated with tax returns.
She has discovered that corporate tax returns tell interesting and important tales.
When she learned that the Attorney General of New York had fined the Pearson Foundation $7.7 million for becoming involved in the activities of its for-profit parent, and that the for-profit parent was allied in a business venture with the Gates Foundation, she decided it was time to study the tax returns.
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God bless Mercedes Schneider and grant her a long and healthy life. One thing I still do not understand… where is the Department of Justice in all of this???? Why isn’t anyone calling for a Congressional investigation? Or, would that be going overboard???
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Interesting question about the absence of the Department of Justice. I wonder why both the Department of Justice and the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights have backed away from protecting the civil rights of minority children. The most recent example is the Louisiana voucher case, where the political pressure from Bobby Jindal stirred up Republicans in Congress, who shouted so much that the Department of Justice dropped its objections to the segregating effects of vouchers in Louisiana parishes covered by federal court orders. And one might also ask, why is the Obama administration so willing to kowtow to Jindal and his colleagues who never voted for him and attack him at every turn?
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To answer your last question:
Quite simple. Because Obomber is a slick talking neoliberal dimocrap just as Jindal and his colleagues are slick talking neoliberal rethuglicrats, different sides of the same oligarchically minted coin.
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Duane,
Name calling for both parties was mean.
And accurate.
And far too restrained.
Still, I agree with you.
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Mercedes, thank you again for another excellent article.
I have a question that I wonder if anyone can answer?
As you mentioned in your article, the Gates Foundation was a big part of the Pearson Foundation. So, why and who was it, that decided to send 7.5 million of the fine money to 100k10 Foundation which is a Gates supported Foundation?
The whole thing seems sickening to me, but to fine a Gates funded foundation and then turn around and give the money to another Gated funded foundation is just ludicrous!
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Tim, such “sanctions” are only veneer. Decor. Window dressing.
That is why Common Core in its entirety needs to be scrapped.
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As I replied to Diane above:
Because Obomber is a slick talking neoliberal dimocrap just as Jindal and his colleagues are slick talking neoliberal rethuglicrats, different sides of the same oligarchically minted coin.
They (including the supposed Justice Dept) scratch each others back and put on a not so good Kabuki theatre.
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