Tuesday, March 15, 2011

solidaridad: Are School Privatizers Employing Fabian Núñez and Mercury Pubic Affairs to Champion Charters?

solidaridad: Are School Privatizers Employing Fabian Núñez and Mercury Pubic Affairs to Champion Charters?

Are School Privatizers Employing Fabian Núñez and Mercury Pubic Affairs to Champion Charters?

"Private money is paying for key senior staff positions... raising questions about transparency and the direction of reforms in the nation's second-largest school system." — Howard Blume (Los Angeles Times Education Staff Writer)

In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers—Jonathan Kozol

Mercury Pubic Affairs, LLC in its own words, "is a high-stakes public strategy firm," given to "win at all costs" strategies, regardless of how unprincipled the means or the end. Fabian Núñez, a huge school privatization