"Support Our Schools" Astroturf Group Rallies With Letter Writing Campaign to County Commissioners
The shenanigans going on this spring in Knoxville, TN, offer a powerful case study of corporate control of schools in action.
A few weeks before Eli Broad's East TN transplant, Jim McIntyre, delivered his State of the Schools speech in January of this year, a newgrassroots astroturf group was formed to push the Broadie budget plan once it was presented by McIntyre.
The group, Support Our Schools, is headed by Virginia Babb, who is one of three paid staffers for a corporate
A few weeks before Eli Broad's East TN transplant, Jim McIntyre, delivered his State of the Schools speech in January of this year, a new
The group, Support Our Schools, is headed by Virginia Babb, who is one of three paid staffers for a corporate