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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Schools Matter: Avoiding a Return to the Dark Ages of Democracy

Schools Matter: Avoiding a Return to the Dark Ages of Democracy

Avoiding a Return to the Dark Ages of Democracy

On Tuesday the limos will be lined up with their motors running outside some undisclosed Manhattan location while Bloomberg's hedge funders oversee voting by the hand-picked pawns and patsies chosen to sign off on the State waiver that is required for a non-educator with no credentials to become head of the largest ostensibly-public education system in America.

It is the new Gilded Age fully realized, and champagne corks are popping in every penthouse suite of Manhattan as another cold dark winter settles in for the surrounding millions of unemployed who will be trying to keep the lights on this holiday season, even as the purchased politicians try to pull the plug on unemployment and offer the wealthy another tax cut.

A hearing for Cathy Black? A public hearing? You've got to be kidding--no one wants to go back to the Dark Ages of democracy, especially when there are still plenty of public institutions to be disrupted and turned into