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Bloomberg Knows What’s Best for Us, too | The G Bitch Spot

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Bloomberg Knows What’s Best for Us, too

Times-Pic/nola.com: New York’s Mayor Bloomberg joins fray over control of state school board

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who kicked off his own controversial reform effort in New York City schools almost a decade ago,…signed a $5,000 check this month to help get Kira Orange Jones get [sic] elected to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Bloomberg also contributed $100,000 to the Alliance for Better Classrooms, a group expected to weild [sic] considerable influence in three runoffs, which will determine who wins control of the board.

A political action committee organized by Baton Rouge businessman Lane Grigsby, the so-called