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Monday, November 21, 2011

Contemporary school reform is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1%. « Fred Klonsky

Contemporary school reform is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1%. « Fred Klonsky:

Contemporary school reform is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1%.

Tom Hoffman:

Contemporary school reform is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1%. If the 30 richest people in the country and their money were raptured tomorrow, it would have a devastating effect on the school reform enterprise.

Everyone working in school reform is not in the 1%, but they are probably funded by the 1%, or working for public money that is being actively leveraged (a word reformers like to use in this context) by the 1%. Everyone who works at Bank of America isn’t rich, but it doesn’t mean you can’t criticize Bank of America. Same for KIPP.

Alexander writes:

…reform opponents need to make sure not to discredit themselves by trying to