The Corrupt Collapse of Education Reform's Wall Street Model
Uber capitalist, Michael Bloomberg, became the poster billionaire boy for corporate education reform when he was elected mayor and named Dictator of Schools in the City. The Bloomberg-Klein model of test-punish-shut down-charterize became the urban model for the nation, and Klein has even been wined and dined in Australia and elsewhere as a distinguished expert in all matters educational. Bloomberg was able to use his great educational success and $100 million to squeak out re-election against an unknown opponent in 2009.
Had the public known, as Bloomberg and Klein did, that the entire educational empire was built on the same kind of fraud that made Enron and AIG household names, he would not be mayor today.
Here's the beginning and end of Jennifer Medina's piece in the NYTimes on the whole sordid matter:
Had the public known, as Bloomberg and Klein did, that the entire educational empire was built on the same kind of fraud that made Enron and AIG household names, he would not be mayor today.
Here's the beginning and end of Jennifer Medina's piece in the NYTimes on the whole sordid matter: