It isn’t enough that billionaires are pouring big money into school board races.
Now Laurene Powell Jobs is urging her allies to run for the local school board and become advocates for her ideas about the importance of reinventing high schools along the lines that she and Arne Duncan have chosen.
She has even provided a handy kit about how to do it.
Good move on her part. She doesn’t have to spend millions to elect her candidates. She just asks for volunteers for the XQ army.
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The tool kit is not ready, but I signed up to receive it… Prepared to oppose billionaire reform ideas at the local level. See also the Indivisibles 2.0 ineffective political action.
Someone should pretend to support her cause, take the millions for their campaign and then do the exact opposite of what she wants when they get elected.
Just SICK. We need critical literacies and critical thinkers NOW MORE THAN ever.
Jobs doesn’t practice what she preaches:
“XQ is led by Co-Founder and CEO Russlynn Ali, former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights under President Barack Obama, and Co-Founder and Board Chair Laurene Powell Jobs, president of Emerson Collective. Board members include Geoffrey Canada, Marc Ecko, Michael Klein and Yo-Yo Ma.”
Why doesn’t she put local representatives on her board? She has complete control over that.
She doesn’t want you running her lobbying group – those slots are reserved- instead she wants you to run for election and then lobby for her priorities.
Yo-Yo Ma? Would he enjoy a Bach cello solo played by a computer?
“MICHAEL KLEIN
Michael Klein is a managing partner of M. Klein and Company. A graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Michael built a background in strategic advisory work during his 23-year career at Citi’s investment bank. Launched in 2012, M. Klein and Company is a global strategic advisor to chief executive officers, boards of directors, governments and large institutional investors. The firm has rapidly developed into one of the nation’s leading strategic and financial advisors. Michael has served on many not-for-profit boards and as special advisor to the UN Secretary General and to the World Food Programme of the United Nations, regarding food security and disaster recovery, for more than a decade.”
Who better to reinvent public schools than an investment banker?
The most alarming part to me about XQ is how the whole US Department of Education parrots them- down to phrases and terms.
There’s no division at all between “government” and “ed reform marketing”- it’s one seamless, lock-step whole. Now Jobs wants to take that complete and utter federal capture and push it down to the school board level, so we can ALL parrot these slogans.
oh, terribly strong statement: There is no division between government and ed reform marketing…
If the tech sector wants to support public schools they could start paying taxes and stop taking government handouts. Whatever tiny amount Amazon is paying to launch their private preschool chain will be dwarfed by what they’re pulling out of public school funding in NYC.
Stop helping us! Please! We beg of you. Just pay your taxes, like we all do.
Here, Here! NYC schools need an infusion of $1,700,000,000 a LOT more than Amazon shareholders!
XQ: “Take the vocal from local–
Free markets want Koch-al, not ‘woke’-al!”
Says Laurene Powell Jobs.
She weaves and she bobs
To make sure her market-hold’s choke-al.