Schools Matter: Tennessee's Milken Plan for Teacher Evaluation Ready to Collapse

Schools Matter: Tennessee's Milken Plan for Teacher Evaluation Ready to Collapse:

Tennessee's Milken Plan for Teacher Evaluation Ready to Collapse

by Jim Horn

What does a corporate attorney with hundreds of millions of dirty money do when "banned for life from working in the securities industry?" These days he stops gambling in Wall Street casinos and puts his money on a sure thing: taxpayer dollars.

And so goes the story (told by James Stewart) of Lowell Milken, whose more infamous business partner/brother, Michael, took the fall for the family, pleaded guilty to 6 felony counts, and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

With philanthro-dollars spread as thin and wide as a roll of veneer for WalMart coffee tables, the Milkens have easily bought their way back to "respectability" in an era when CEOs who did what the Milken boys did in the 80s and 90s are now routinely shuttled to