Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is a true believer in corporate reform. She wants to fixlow test scores by opening charter schools and hiring TFA teachers to staff them and the public schools.
Governor Raimondo was previously an investment banker.
Bob Shepherd, expert teacher, curriculum writer, assessment developer, and author, has an offer for Governor Raimondo:
Dear Governor Raimondo: I can do TFA one better and supply teachers from among the Florida redneck community with only 3 hours’ training and no education whatsoever. Only $10,000 apiece finder’s fee. Call me. –Bob Shepherd, CEO of Bob’s Real Good Florida Schools
I bet he is willing to negotiate the finders’ fee.
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I want some of that money, too.
Thank for thinking of this opportunity to get rich, Bob.
Here is my offer.
I’ll only charge a $5,000 finders fee for each teacher I recruit for Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, but all of the teachers I recruit will come from local Rhode Island prisons and jails and be furloughed during the school days to teach in the local charter schools.
And, as a bonus, for every prisoner who is serving time for child sexual abuse, the price will only be $2,500 per inmate charter teacher. Think of the bargain Raimondo will get because child predators have a lot of experience with children. Just think of all the extra money that Raimondo will be able to siphon off for friends and family that own charter schools to enrich themselves even more.
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Yes, Lloyd, but are teachers is accredited by Florida’sown Chiefs for Ka-ching. So, just back away from my biziness, bud. Don’t make me have to send some of the boys over thar.
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And that, Lloyd and Bob together, was a perfect summation of how corporate education works: cutting services, cutting corners, and cutting throats. Everyone loses.
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Everyone but the corporate charter/voucher vampires lose. Even if the corporate vampires get shut down in a year or two, they will get a little pat on the hand, no time in jail, and maybe a fine that is 1-percent of what they stole from the public.
Unless they spent the money as fast as it flowed in, even when caught, they walk away wealthy but everyone else loses.
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The corporate vampires lose too, in the end. They spend their lives trampling others in pursuit of money. And you can’t take it with you.
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“Chiefs for Ka-ching” – exactly
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Hey, as the governor learned in investment banking, everything is negotiable. This is especially true in the wild and wacky charter “school” biz!!!
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I would like to offer to recruit some people to coach fencing. We could find some that work on woven wire, others that stick to electric fences. Maybe barbed wire. Then some could coach the kids on how to seek stolen property. This is a good business plan.
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Career readiness!!!
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Great training for careers in politics, charter school governance, or education reform.
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Can we at long last put to rest the tired refrain about Bernie Sanders being somehow lesser because he’s not a Democrat? Raimondo is hardly an anomaly—she fits snuggly in the party mainstream. Since, for the Democratic Party, an anti-union, pro-privatization agenda is not disqualifying, why should working people like teachers feel any kinship to it? And why in any sense should not affiliating with the Party be somehow a negative? It’s quite the opposite, sadly…
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Some DAM Poet, I eagerly await your next masterpiece, her, using your usual vast command of the English language, & the moniker DINO with Raimondo & Gina.
Don’t disappoint!
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Hahahahahahaha! As usual, Bob, excellent.
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R.I. has EdChoice and it is 42% Catholic. I speculate Raimondo is a Prosperity Catholic making her similar to the Republican Catholics associated with the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich.
“R.I. Charter School Gets Go-Ahead for Masters Program …$500,000 from United Way and the R.I. Foundation”. De-professionalizing serves two purposes. It makes wages for teachers lower by easing entry into the career. And secondly, it solves the problem about which a blogger lamented at his Catholic church life site, “…teachers identify more strongly with the norms of their profession than the ethos of their religious schools”.
Tim Busch who expanded the Legatus organization (Catholic CEO’s) to 90 chapters with 5,000 members is profiled at National Catholic Reporter, a media outlet that supports Pope Francis in his respect for labor associations and income equality. Busch is on the Board that owns the other major Catholic media. The founder of Legatus is Domino Pizza’s founder who created Ave Maria, Florida.
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Napa Institute, founded by Tim Bush. recently added an offshoot, Napa Legal Institute “..to enhance the legal representation…with respect to hiring policies and things like that..(they provide) allied attorneys who have expertise in advising religious non-profit organizations.”
Leonard Leo has the judge situation in hand.
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Before Trump is ousted, he and McConnell will have remade the federal judiciary in Trump’s image. Scary!
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“Scary”- Napa Institute’s site header- a reel of photos including one of a row of women dressed in black with high collars and white aprons serving food.
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