Read about his funders here.

In the current campaign, he has the support of 18 billionaires, including Bill Gates.

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sstotsky says:

August 10, 2019 at 9:59 am

Has any candidate for presidency talked about education policies (not just giving more money to schools)? What are the specific policies they favor?

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- retired teacher says:
  
  August 10, 2019 at 10:28 am
  
  The only candidate that has addressed public education in a positive way is Bernie Sanders. His Marshall plan is exemplary. and he rejects privatization. The rest of the pack will talk about raising salaries for teachers or even increasing Title 1 funds, but they avoid addressing privatization for the most part. https://berniesanders.com/a-thurgood-marshall-plan-for-public-education/
  
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  - Sandra Stotsky says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 10:30 am
    
    Thanks. So no one talks about getting rid of USED?
  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 11:24 am
    
    States rights libertarians like the Koch’s talk about the defunding of all government so that their oligarchy can flourish. Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society. ALEC is the scourge of democracy.
    Bernie supports a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
  - Sandra Stotsky says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 12:23 pm
    
    When did federalism become states’ rights libertarianism?
  - ciedie aech says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 1:30 pm
    
    and that says so much about how little things will change if voters settle for the “center”
  - Sandra Stotsky says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 1:32 pm
    
    Tell us what happened in Newark with Zuckerberg/Chan money and Booker’s leadership?
  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 1:43 pm
    
    Stotsky-
    Tell us about what happened to academic independence at the PUBLIC University of Arkansas.
    
    BTW- a new initiative by UnKochMyCampus – Academic Capture Warning System.
  - Yvonne says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 3:37 pm
    
    Go Bernie.
  - bethree5 says:
    
    August 11, 2019 at 11:56 am
    
    Sandra (8/10 1:32pm comment): there’s a good recent wrap-up here:
    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/3/18629810/mark-zuckerberg-cory-booker-newark-schools
    And Jersey Jazzman blog [Mark Weber] has published lots of granular detail, data charts etc on pubsch vs charter performance
Linda says:

August 10, 2019 at 10:05 am

It’s not surprising that Koch brother, Bill Gates, supports Booker. Until recently, Booker was on the DFER list for campaign contributions (Michael Bennet and Susan Davis remain DFER listed). “How Betsy DeVos could sink Booker’s presidential bid.”
With justice, Booker will take Gates down with him.

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- sstotsky says:
  
  August 10, 2019 at 10:07 am
  
  Do you discourage BDS? Have you mentioned it?
  
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  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 11:20 am
    
    Are you Sandra Stotsky with the sorry excuse for the Waltons in the thread to the “Beware right wing….” post?
    
    Trying to manufacture dissent at this blog in behalf of the ruling class or Russia – bring a better game.
  - Sandra Stotsky says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 12:30 pm
    
    Linda, Please tell us about what work you do and where.
  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 1:36 pm
    
    Anybody who reads Max Eden’s promotion of privatization in the article, “Catholic Schools and Truth Decay”, posted at the Manhattan Institute, understand the donor class is well aware of the grave harm their agenda causes to the most vulnerable and their intent is to further manipulate to their advantage.
    
    Stotsky-
    I don’t owe you my name nor a list of my credentials. I owe my nation everything which I strive to repay by preserving (1) Main Street from the grasping, greedy, predators of Silicon Valley and discount retailing (2) a middle class (3) free quality education and (4) merit based opportunity. I strive to protect children from abuse at the hands of no excuses colonialists and to protect equal rights for women and people of color.
    
    Diane Ravitch is a gift that an America of high ideals deserves and you are less than the dirt she walks on.
  - Sandra Stotsky says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 1:41 pm
    
    Have you visited any Catholic schools? I have. Kids learn in them; they have no choice.
  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 1:54 pm
    
    Decades of priest abuse cover-ups.
    Patriarchy and authoritarianism is anathema to education. One parent let her daughter describe the difference as she perceived it, between a Catholic school and a public school. In the Catholic school she was told what she couldn’t be. In the public school she learned what she could do and be.
    
    Public schools unify us as a nation. Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, evangelical …schools divide us as a nation. 60% of white Catholics voted for the divider-in-chief, Trump.
  - John says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 2:32 pm
    
    Linda, how does “I strive to protect children from abuse at the hands of no excuses colonialists and to protect equal rights for women and people of color.” result in trying to take away the charter schools that people of color choose for their children in order to force them back into neighborhood schools they don’t want? Sorry, that is not a progressive agenda.
  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 4:40 pm
    
    John,
    (1) Read the research that identifies the selection process parents use. It’s not similar to the usual consumer choice of best product.
    (2) Defend the political decisions from disaster capitalism that closed the last remaining public school in New Orleans. Read the crocodile tears of the Manhattan Institute (Koch-linked) for a mother in despair because, in New Orleans, the charter schools hired ill equipped twenty something TFA ‘ers to replace the teachers who lived in the neighborhood.(“Catholic Schools and Truth Decay”)
    (3) Read how the suburban saviors of TFA are an arm of charter schools.(Pro Publica) Read how the TFA experience pads their resumes so that they can promote charter schools in the offices of members of Congress.(Deutsch 29 blog)
    (4) Check out the demographics of the management team at Fordham Institute. Read about its funding at Nonpartisan Education Review.
    (5) Convince me that Reed Hastings is altruistic when he wants communities to be denied the right to elect school boards.
    (7) Convince me that when the founder of 4 major ed organizations funded by Gates identified the goal of charters as “…brands on a large scale”, that the objective is not profit taking.
  - Linda says:
    
    August 10, 2019 at 4:56 pm
    
    Privatization of the common good is NEVER progressive. ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, funded by Koch, was founded by Paul Weyrich, architect of the religious right. Privatization is their goal and the billionaires, like conservative Betsy DeVos have spent big to achieve it, e.g. BAEO. Bill Gates is the Koch’s ideological brother. He lives in the state with the most regressive tax system in the nation. In the state of Washington the poor pay a rate up to 7 times that of the rich. Gates spent $200,000 to defeat the re-election of state judges who rendered verdicts favorable to public schools. He has spoken against raising the minimum wage and public pensions. He favors consumption taxes over income taxes for obvious reasons.
    The rich can count on Booker, not the 99%.
  - NYC public school parent says:
    
    August 11, 2019 at 12:42 am
    
    John,
    
    There is something truly nasty about people who think that the only way to give African-American children “choice” is to take money from their already underfunded and struggling public school and give it to a no excuse charter that will pick and choose only the students they want to teach and treat the rest in the way that we have all witnessed on video.
    
    Would you like that to be the only choice for your children? Either they must experience a no-excuses charter or an underfunded public school?
    
    If you want choice, you would be promoting choice schools that are all public. Not allowing private operators to benefit from their freedom to pick and choose who to teach.
  - bethree5 says:
    
    August 11, 2019 at 8:13 am
    
    John (re: Linda’s suggested research) – or you can just use the search function below for all blog posts. Lots of articles & studies linked, as well as detailed discussion in comment threads. With results data & analysis now pouring in from 25+ yrs of charters, there’s a lot to learn. It isn’t just a binary cons vs prog issue that can be handled w/a few polemic talking points.
Sandra Stotsky says:

August 10, 2019 at 12:24 pm

I don’t understand a word you’ve written.

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- Linda says:
  
  August 10, 2019 at 1:57 pm
  
  Sandra,
  Blog readers understand you very well after Diane provided the bio.
  
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Lloyd Lofthouse says:

August 10, 2019 at 2:29 pm

Open Secrets also reveals Cory Booker’s Source of Funds

61.19 percent of his funds come from Larde Individual contributions.

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00035267

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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  August 10, 2019 at 9:55 pm
  
  Good Lard, those are Lard contributions.
  
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21st Century Poet says:

August 10, 2019 at 9:32 pm

He has been a right-wing shill from the get-go:

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SomeDAM Poet says:

August 10, 2019 at 11:11 pm

We can always count on Glen to do his research and pull no punches.

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