Andrea Gabor, who is a professor of business journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York, explores the influx of millions of dollars into Massachusetts to influence the referendum on charter schools.
Many of the donors are unknown, but the $33 million spent on this referendum is historic.
Most of the money to support public schools comes from teachers and their unions.
Twice as much comes from financiers, Wall Street, and corporate interests that favor privatization and non-union schools.
The corporate interests know that a victory in the nation’s top-performing state will lay the groundwork for busting the teachers’ union and for privatizing public schools in many other states. If they can win in Massachusetts, with its strong history of local school committees and excellent public schools, they can win anywhere.
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And if all we hear is the media-fed propaganda from the autocratic worshiping, greedy Wall Street-Hedge Fund Crowd, only teachers and the democratic labor union that is suppose to protect their interests and support them are the only ones that have special interests.
For instance, a fairly secure job that pays a livable wage and teaching the children of this country. This is the same profession that is the reason the U.S. is ranked the 4th most educated country on the planet with about 3 college grads for every job that requires a college degree. That is what teachers are interested in, their special interest.
The greed-based agenda to privatize the public schools and destroy the teaching profession TRUMPS the interests of more than 3 million public school teachers teaching almost 50 million children.
What is the special interest of Wall Street and those Hedge Funds?
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Más money.
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Dark propaganda floods into the NYT: “Schools That Work” (Match Charter – Boston)
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Yes, the Leonhardt article is propaganda. Even charter boosters admit the claims about academic gains are mixed at best
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And the timing is no accident.
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