Schools Matter: Oligarchs' Booker T. in KC Resigns, Leaving Big Broadie Shadow

Schools Matter: Oligarchs' Booker T. in KC Resigns, Leaving Big Broadie Shadow:

Oligarchs' Booker T. in KC Resigns, Leaving Big Broadie Shadow

by Jim Horn

Above: Booker T. Washington and the backers of racist industrial education policies

Loyal Broadie, John Covington (Class of '08), is headed to Michigan to perform more corporate reform-schooler meat axe surgery on the ailing body of the state's public schools. Covington announced his decision to leave the Kansas City Superintendent's post last Wednesday afternoon, and on Friday he signed with Gov. Rick Snyder to become the manager in charge of corporatizing Michigan's poorest schools under an anti-public provision that gives Snyder's appointed managers unprecedented power to set aside policies put in place by publicly elected officials in cash-strapped communities. Covington's new contract will bring him more of $1.6 million over the next four years:

Detroit — The new chancellor of a statewide school district for low-performing schools could earn