Joel Klein of New York to become an Executive for News Corp: Full spectrum dominance of education the goal
Joel Klein announced Nov. 9 that at year’s end he will resign as York City’s Schools chancellor to become executive vice president at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Yesterday, the company announced that it was buying a technology company with big financial ties to the New York City school system. How nice. The neo-liberal corporate state has provided Klein the training ground to put forth neo-liberal market reforms that are proving to do the job of dismantling public education in the interest of the new corporate EduCare that is being built by private corporate interests to take over the educational means of production. Klein has done his job well, both with his support of the onerous Race to the Top and his corporate bootlicking and policy and personnel changes that promise the private sector a lock on public education.
News Corp. officials told the New York Times that Klein would advise Murdoch on a number of initiatives, including “developing business strategies for the emerging educational marketplace.” Capitalizing on Klein’s inside information as to how government works, his ‘networking and cronyism’ will be important for Murdoch and his companies to receive tax payer subsidized contracts, the only way to do business. Klein is much like a stock insider, he holds the information needed to put together the deals; he understands how to package the
