Schooling in the Ownership Society: Did they really give VanderArk his own chain of charter schools?

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Did they really give VanderArk his own chain of charter schools?

Did they really give VanderArk his own chain of charter schools?

by Mike Klonsky

Tom VanderArk, was the Gates Foundation’s former executive director of education and a national proponent of online learning. His for-profit company was granted charters in 2010 to open a high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and two others in Newark. The New York school, Brooklyn City Prep, also got space in a public school building — a precious and controversial commodity — hired a principal, and welcomed applications

What to do about Murdoch's $47 million deal with Bloomberg's schools?

by Mike Klonsky

From Think Progress:

New York is readying to hand over tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer dollars to a corporation that may have hacked 9/11 victims and which is being defended in the scandal by a man who once was a high-ranking official in New York City government. But according to Carl Korn, a spokesman for the New York State United Teachers, there is still a way to stop the deal.