Mercedes Schneider, author, master blogger and high school teacher in Louisiana, writes here about a new video that will be screened across the state.
She writes:
“The 28-minute video near the end of this post, 2011: When the Billionaires Bought BESE, was produced by Louisiana journalist Mike Stagg.
“It is the edited-for-television version of his video research on the 2011 state board of education (BESE) elections in Louisiana– a BESE election in which an unprecedented amount of out-of-state cash flowed into Louisiana in order to advance a test-score-obsessed, corporate education reform agenda.”
She adds:
“It’s 2015, and the out-of-state money continues to flow, with California billionaire Eli Broad donating $250,000, and Arkansas billionaires, Alice and Jim Walton, contributing $400,000.
“The election is October 24, 2015, with early voting starting Saturday, October 10:”
Will the voters of Louisiana reject the out-of-state billionaires’ attempt to buy control of their public schools?
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Today is the first campaign finance reporting for Denver school board races. Six of the seven seats have been filled with people who got money from these same people. $250,000-$300,000 per seat. But with no limits, all mail-in ballots, and filing dates that are pretty worthless few people know what is really happening: out of town billionaires buying seats. So far DFER’s PAC, Raising Colorado, has paid for at least three mailers for their candidates. WE have one seat open because of term limits. It would be wonderful and frankly almost a miracle if we could hold on to that seat and pick up at least one more. But the ruse of reforms success continues here. Just last night more communities spoke about not wishing more co-locations with charters. Board will most likely ignore these wishes when they vote on Thursday.
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Here is Karen Wolfe’s report today on these same determined billionaire takeover insurgents. These free marketeer terrorists are poised nationwide to grab all public schools and privatize them. And also kill all unions concurrently. See the SCOTUS case Friedrich v. CTA, and also the California case which is being replicated across the country, Vergara v. CTA.
http://www.psconnectnow.org/blog/2015/10/12/is-eli-broads-hostile-takeover-of-lausd-coming-from-the-outside-or-in
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