Schooling in the Ownership Society: Who brought Jonah Edelman amd SFC to town? Bruce Rauner

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Who brought Jonah Edelman amd SFC to town? Bruce Rauner

Who brought Jonah Edelman amd SFC to town? Bruce Rauner

by Mike Klonsky

Education blogs are buzzing about Stand For Children anti-hero, Jonah Edelman,whose braggadocio has left the corrupt underbelly of corporate school reform badly exposed. But to understand this story, one has to look past Edelman because, as everyone over at the local saloon knows, behind every small-time player stands a big-time player.

In today's Chicago Sun-Times, "Braggart angers teachers' union after tough negotiations over reform bill", education writers Roz Rossi and Abdon Pallasch tell at least part of the story about Edelman's trip to Illinois, his bags packed with hundred-dollar bills in search of willing politicians (are there any unwilling in this state?) ready to abandon their traditional union base and vote for the anti-union SB7.
Enter the big-time player:

Edelman was recruited to Illinois by Bruce Rauner, a Republican venture capitalist