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Look who is behind the Emanuel, Williams, Olson video. « Fred Klonsky

Look who is behind the Emanuel, Williams, Olson video. « Fred Klonsky:

Look who is behind the Emanuel, Williams, Olson video.

In a earlier post I showed the latest video by the not-so-strange bedfellows of Juan Williams (formerly of NPR until his racist Islamophobia got him fired), right-wing guru of the Michigan-based Education Action Group Kyle Olson and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Leave it to intrepid researcher Mike Klonsky at Small Talk to follow the money.

The video is part of National School Choice Week, the continuation of a campaign promoting vouchers and privately-run charter schools and attacking public education and collective-bargaining rights for teachers. The campaign