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Friday, August 6, 2010

Michael Bennet and the Billionaire Boys Club. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Michael Bennet and the Billionaire Boys Club. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Michael Bennet and the Billionaire Boys Club.


Thanks to DFER Watch.
The story broke in the NY Times this morning.
Democratic Party Senator Michael Bennet, who is up for election, was the superintendent of Denver’s public schools.
In 2008, at the time he was superintendent, the district owed the teachers $400 million in promised pension

Hiroshima Day.


An Indian student with painted face looks on as she participates in Hiroshima Day peace rally in Mumbai, India, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
65 years ago today the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Hiroshima was civilian target. 130,ooo were killed immediately. They were mainly women and children. Three

War, schools or food?

I can’t let this story go.
It is rotten in itself. And it is a metaphor for the state of the union.
Those who should be screaming bloody murder are silent.
By next week the House will vote on and pass a $28 billion dollar package of domestic spending that will include $10 billion for schools to hire back teachers who were pink slipped last Spring and Summer.
The teacher unions are pleased. But what neither the AFT or the NEA will mention in their press releases or on

The Brick Tower.


Justin Hudson’s graduation speech from Hunter College High School, a New York public school.