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Sunday, October 30, 2011

solidaridad: LA Weakly proudly pushes propaganda for Broad/Gates astroturfers

solidaridad: LA Weakly proudly pushes propaganda for Broad/Gates astroturfers:

LA Weakly proudly pushes propaganda for Broad/Gates astroturfers

No question: the Business Roundtable and its bedfellows insist that schools become data-driven depots, or, as Frederick W. Smith, CEO of Federal Express puts it on the Business Coalition for Education Reform website: "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." One would point out to Smith and his allies that kids aren't packages to be delivered from one teachers to the next."Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian

Best part of Don't Hold Us Back astroturf coalition? None of their leaders make less than six figures. It's all about kids!
The repulsive libertarian rag the LA Weakly has inked mendacious material supporting the corporate education reform for years, and their latest assault on the public commons keeps that tradition alive. The trashy masseuse and porn ad pennysaver's Simon Wilson puts together an article so full of lies and deceit, that only Parent Revolution's Gabe

Panel following screening of "The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman"

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Panel following screening of "The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" from Robert D. Skeels onVimeo.

Dr. Stephen Krashen and activist Robert D. Skeels spoke following a screening of "The Inconvenient Truth