Valerie Jablow is a parent in D.C. whose blog follows the ethical scandals of public officials and the charter industry in her hometown.
It is so crazy that I can’t summarize it.
Somewhere in this Pink Panther-style story are the moneymakers.
The guys who finance the real estate: Turner Agassi.
Tennis star Andre Agassi opened his own charter school in Las Vegas. He promised that every student would be accepted by a four-year college. Agassi donated $18 million to his school. The school was a disaster. Staff turnover was high. It was the worst performing charter in the state. It charter was turned over to NYC-based Democracy Prep.
Then equity investor Turner Capital offered to create a partnership with Agassi to build charter schools. That’s a lucrative business. Turner and Agassi hit the jackpot.
Disruption! That’s the means and the end!
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Need a summary, huh? I got this:
The charter board approved two Rocketships (screen-time-fueled charters) to be built to send off satellites to spy on student data. The Rocketships were built on an overvalued Launchpad (LLC) in Ward 5, gifting an easy $22mil to investors. In the meeting, children recently kidnapped from a Rocketship where the meeting was held were blithely ignored, as was providing many of the Rocketship approval details, like the fact that there are two of them. Jeff Bezos, who is building his own rocket ship, cheered on all the cloak and dagger. Suspects in the kidnappings might be believed by D.C. authorities to include: aliens from outer space, a tennis player, a recently divorced CEO, and a talking pineapple.
All very simple. A normal day in the USA.
Thank you, LCT.
There was more corruption in this post than I could easily condense. You did it well!
With Common Core standards and testing, I outline nonsense for a living.
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Billionaires have always been the puppet masters of privatization. They are the ones that stand to gain the most if they can eradicate democratic public education. The “holy grail” of the scheme has always been the expensive real estate on which urban public schools sit. It is the ultimate self-dealing prize. Thanks to NPE and other education bloggers that have informed the public of their devious plot, billionaires also understand that the “jig is almost up” on their lies and corruption. Their intention is the stealth hostile takeover of public schools and properties based on no ideological basis other than greed and suppression of democracy. The wealthy are using their top down network to seize as much as they can before the people attack with pitchforks.