Schools Matter: Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre Goes After More Tax Dollars to Fund Broad Initiatives

Schools Matter: Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre Goes After More Tax Dollars to Fund Broad Initiatives:

Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre Goes After More Tax Dollars to Fund Broad Initiatives

by Jim Horn

Knoxville's Branch Office of the Billionaire Boys Club has a new campaign to come up with $35,000,000 over the next five years to push forward the corporate reform agenda in East Tennessee.  Local Broadie, Supt. Jim McIntyre, has placed the first bug in the ear of Knox County taxpayers at a televised meeting at Fulton High School:

"You get that raise one time, but (it) continues in your base salary," he said during a community forum held at Fulton High School. "Knox County Schools is asking for a raise of $35 million and that's probably the simplest way to put this."  

So if Knox County children and parents are the recipients of this $35,000,000 raise, they, too, are also the ones to pay for that raise. Simple, indeed.  Or simple-minded? 

What is Slim Jim planning to do this "raise?"  Well, the biggest chunk and the largest increase by far will go to