Mercedes Schneider reports that the Louisiana PAC created by a small number of out-of-state billionaires to buy control of the State Board is disbanding.
She writes:
In 2015, six out-of-state billionaires from four families contributed a combined $3M to influence the outcome of Louisiana’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election.
The PAC was just dissolved.
What will happen in Louisiana without millions from the Waltons, Michael Bloomberg, John Arnold, and Eli Broad?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Can the deformers do what they do without BIG $$$$$?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-play-deficit
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yes; take away the money and suddenly there would be a resounding silence in those “reformer” worlds where everyone endlessly claims to care about the kids….
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We should still keep watch. Smaller, new PACs could be formed with school-friendly names to fool unsuspecting families.
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There’s still a bunch of “think tanks,” ie. lobbyists actively working to get their hands on public funds. If billionaires stop writing checks, they will dry up too.
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Billionaires have left the building
Elvis left the building
And also billionaires
With all their many billions
Like Presley’s many hairs
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New America’s COO could return to New Orleans to prop up the privatization agenda. New America is a “gift” from Google’s Eric Schmidt.
Or, the Koch’s Heartland could send Sandra, the retired professor who had the Walton endowed chair in the ed department at the University of Arkansas.
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How to kill a vampire- sunlight, a wooden stake to the heart or, tearing off the head (figuratively… David Koch)
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Diane The rest of the article below is behind a paywall. But there’s enough to get what’s going on:
“The U.S. Education Department Deploys Statistics Agency to Improve Civil Rights Data
By Sarah D. Sparks on August 23, 2019 3:42 PM”
“Federal civil rights data on schools can be messy, incomplete, and at times difficult to believe. But the data are also critical to understanding how different groups of students experience and achieve in school.”
“On Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that the National Center for Education Statistics would partner with the civil rights office to overhaul the procedures for schools submitting information to the Civil Rights Data Collection.”
“The announcement comes following a sharp rebuke from the Government Accountability Office, which in June found that the department knowingly and repeatedly uploaded incorrect data to the CRDC. For…” CBK
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