Schools Matter: Eli Broad's Robert Bobb Pleads in Court to Hold On to Bonuses

Schools Matter: Eli Broad's Robert Bobb Pleads in Court to Hold On to Bonuses

Eli Broad's Robert Bobb Pleads in Court to Hold On to Bonuses

by Jim Horn

Wherever big privatization moves are happening in America's urban schools, you will find the hand, or the underhand, of the BBC (Billionaire Boys' Club). Case in point, Detroit, and the Broad Foundation, which runs its ownsuperintendents' indoctrination academy that teaches the corporate junk yard dog style of ed leadership.


In Detroit, the puppet in charge is Robert Bobb (Broad Class of '09), who continues defending his case in court to hold on to the $145,000 in sweetener that he collects from Broad and the infamous Kellogg Foundation, whose eugenicist namesake, John Harvey Kellogg, was co-founder of the Race Betterment Foundation and an early proponent of clitoral mutilation using carbolic acid. One other oligarch providing Bobb's bag bonus money remains unnamed.


Surely Bobb was not to be influenced to follow the wishes of his patrons when he