Schools Matter: Perfidious Petruzzi calls for accurate evaluations of Green Dot Charter Corporation?

Schools Matter: Perfidious Petruzzi calls for accurate evaluations of Green Dot Charter Corporation?:

Perfidious Petruzzi calls for accurate evaluations of Green Dot Charter Corporation?

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene

"The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain." — Los Angeles Times

Wall Street privatization darling Marco Petruzzi (above) led a beleaguered Green Dot through charges of racism, embezzlement, poor performance, and now cheating. Green Dot Founder Steve Barr (below) created a mythology about his corporate charters that persists even today. Barr photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

There are some serious issues with Howard Blume and Sandra Poindexter's article entitled "L.A. Unified bests reform groups in most cases, data shows," but when the charter charlatans exposed in the piece started to foam at the mouth with hubris and hypocrisy, they need to be shown up for what they really are. The corporate crooks at Green Dot wasted no time writing an audacious fact-free response to the Los Angeles Times piece, ironically entitled "A call for accuracy in evaluating school progress."

Their amateurish essay is replete with sloppy prose and is the epitome of the corporate reformers' need to constantly shift metrics in order to fulfill their only goal — money making. Green Dot corporation, namely their well heeled CEO Marco Petruzzi, insisted