White Knuckles Among Corporate Education Reformers
With the Daley/Duncan reforms in Chicago so poisonous that Ron Huberman is in flight even as "Ren2010" has been eliminated from the City bureaucracy's vocab, and with Michelle Rhee repudiated and dismissed in DC, and with the empirical evidence piling up that nearly all of the federal (Gates/Broad) K-12 initiatives have no support among scientists, humanists, or serious researchers, and with parents around the country quickly coming to realize that charter choice means choice without a voice, and with teachers reclaiming their own voices from the whore union leaders who have been selling teachers down the river, and with students the world over openly confronting the Oligarchs who want to eliminate the public space for education and to make it a multinational corporate enterprise, with all this going on, the challenge to Bloomberg's corporate dictatorship in the City was a big deal. Even Arne called the corporate stooge, Steiner, to give his blessing to the "deal."
The deal, of course, centers on the appointment of Polakow-Suransky as Cathie Black's obsequious tutor on all
The deal, of course, centers on the appointment of Polakow-Suransky as Cathie Black's obsequious tutor on all
