"The Mayor of Boston was out and about this week using his bully pulpit to urge passage of state legislation intended to remove legal obstacles to the unlimited growth of apartheid corporate charter schools in urban areas of the Commonwealth. Side benefits of the new legislation for the Broad, Gates, and Boston Foundations include the crippling of collective bargaining and tenure for teachers, the limiting of school committee oversight in favor of the CEO model of goverance, and the imposition of teacher evaluation based on test scores. As he walked and talked, Mayor Menino was heard to use the bold corporate reformers' advertising jingle: 'Education is the civil rights issue of this generation.'"
