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How Corporate Education Types Roll | Scathing Purple Musings

How Corporate Education Types Roll | Scathing Purple Musings

How Corporate Education Types Roll

There’s little doubt that the billionaire driven corporate education reform movement desires to sift taxpayer money into contractual relationships for it’s cronies. New York Times reporter Jim Dweyer reports on one such deal:

Last week, Russ Buettner of The New York Times reported on Philip and Joel Levy, two brotherswho ran the Young Adult Institute Network, an agency for the mentally disabled, under a state contract. They paid themselves about $1 million a year each, plus cars, college tuitions and $50,400 toward a daughter’s purchase of a co-op apartment. The chairwoman of the agency, Marcella C. Fava, said the Levys had earned their money and all the rest of it.

It is the custom at such agencies, which exist only because of state money, not to fret over