Jim McIntyre: The Tip of Eli Broad's Corporate Education Spear in East Tennessee
In March 2008 Broad Academy alumnus, Jim McIntyre (Class of '06), was selected by a 5-4 vote as Superintendent of Schools for Knox County. This followed backroom machinations by then-Mayor Bill Haslam, who last year bought his way to the Governor's Office in Nashville and has since become Gates's and Broad's chief edu-stooge among Southern governors.
In fact, McIntyre was Haslam's choice for Superintendent in early 2008, as expressed here in a letter by Pilot