Peter Cunningham, who worked for Arne Duncan as Assistant Secretary for Communications in the first Obama term, founded the pro-Corporate Reform website Education Post, which consistently supports charter schools and high-stakes testing.
He is stepping aside to help Bill Daley run for Mayor of Chicago, hoping to restore the Daley legacy as Boss of Chicago. Peter is doing it “for the children.” Bill Daley’s father and brother were both mayor of Chicago. Now it’s his turn. Wonder if Daley will continue Rahm’s policies of closing public schools en masse and defunding them?
Daley was Commerce Secretary under Bill Clinton and served as Obama’s chief of staff after Rahm left to run for mayor of Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune writes:
His brother, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, departed City Hall in 2011 after overseeing a long run of economic growth and political stability — but also leaving the city’s finances in shambles. Bill Daley’s surname alone will open him up to attacks from opponents, who could try to tag him with some of his kin’s least-popular legacies, like his father’s old-school machine politics and his brother’s much-loathed deal to privatize the city’s parking meters.
Daley also will face criticism for his strong ties in the financial sector, from New York’s Wall Street to Chicago’s LaSalle Street. His political party is moving to the left nationally, with many centrist establishment Democrats like him struggling to gain a foothold with an increasingly more liberal electorate. And after three flirtations with running for governor, Daley will have to convince Chicagoans that he’s for real this time.
The implicit good news here is that Arne Duncan is not running for mayor.
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Arne is on a book tour. For the sake of public schools in Chicago, I hope Cunningham’s candidate not th winner, but the next question is WHO should be the mayor. I have no idea.
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“I’ve always believed that the parents, kids and teachers who have the most at stake in the movement to improve schools deserve a platform to have their voices heard,” said Peter Cunningham, founder of Education Post.
That’s why Peter took $12 million from a Who’s Who of hedge fund managers and investment bankers to start up EdPost, which serves as a mouthpiece for corporate interests in the ed reform movement. Because of his deep belief that parents and kids should have a platform for their voices to be heard.
What a load of hooey.
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Thank you
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His replacement worked for this guy:
“Steve Barr
Founder, Chairman, CEO—Future Is Now Schools
Founder—Green Dot Public Schools”
So you can see it’s a very lively debate. It’s..charter cheerleaders talking to (and hiring) other charter cheerleaders.
If you drew lines all ed reform groups would lead back to the same 5 people 🙂
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Arne s Brain is taking a leave of absence?
Has anyone informed Arne?
Or perhaps it won’t make any difference.
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Arne’ body is taking leave. The brain left a long, long time ago. That’s why he never learns.
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I hadn’t seen that before, where ed reformers supposedly want to “improve unions”
They oppose the existence of unions.
It must be like how they want to “improve” public schools, by eradicating them.
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make them ‘better’ by forcing competition and getting rid of the problem members
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“The implicit good news here is that Arne Duncan is not running for mayor.”
I guess that’s a glint of silver lining.
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Arne is not running for mayor.
Just FROM the disasters that follow him.
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Genuine democracies are not dynastic, but oligarchies are.
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Please don’t come back.
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I just check out Peter C.’s twitter and found this garbage hear the top:
http://lacomadre.org/2018/09/lausd-strike-whats-the-real-story-former-teacher-former-school-board-member-and-mom-breaks-it-down/
It’s ostensibly a piece about the possibility of a teacher strike in Los Angeles, but in fact, it’s just every lie / canard / smear / slander against teachers — specifically unionized teachers — strung end to end, in venomous proze. It’s what Nazi propaganda was to Jews, and KKK propaganda was/is to blacks.
The underlying premise of most of it is the old false dichotomy:
Are you for adults’ interests, or kids’ interests?
In this woman’s Bizarro World, any gain for teachers automatically means that there’s a loss for students, and vice-versa.
At one point the writer quotes, then ridicules the passage in the teachers’ contract on how to determine seniority, in the events of ties, and the detailed language designed to make the process of assigning seniority transparent and fair.
Hey, lady! That’s boilerplate seniority determination contract language.
The police contract has almost the same language, as does the one for the fighters?
Are those groups self-interested and evil, too? I mean really, you have to make a choice and set a hierarchy:
Are you for police interests, or citizens’ interests?
Are you for fire fighters’ interests, or citizens’ interests?
She even claims that the reason 98% of UTLA teachers voted for a strike was not a result of those those members genuinely coming to that decision by themselves.
No, she (not joking) says that those 34,000 teachers were “brainwashed” by UTLA leadership, who has them in the grip of the “Stockholm Syndrome.”
What a bunch o’ baloney!
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Another Dailey … heaven help save us from these goons.
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“Wonder if Daley will continue Rahm’s policies of closing public schools en masse and defunding them?” Given his billing as a “centrist establishment democrat” I think I know the answer….
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Welcome my son
Welcome to the Machine
— Pink Floyd
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Another Daley, another dollar.
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Wonder what that ‘cunning” Cunningham gets back? Do these politicians plan who will be in office years from now? CONNIVERS.
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