Ed Notes Online: Ed Deform LA Dreamin' Turns Into Nightmare

Ed Notes Online: Ed Deform LA Dreamin' Turns Into Nightmare:

Ed Deform LA Dreamin' Turns Into Nightmare

by ed notes online

While we were celebrating Steve Zimmer’s thrilling win over Kate Anderson in the Los Angeles school board race, the corporate reform crowd had to figure out how to spin this embarrassing defeat. Here it is, fresh from Twitter: Deasey kept his school board majority! Monica Garcia was re-elected! Big money saves Deasey! Inconvenient facts: The billionaires put together about $5 million to beat Steve Zimmer, who is a member of the school board in his first term... Diane Ravitch

Monica Garcia’s re-election was never in doubt , especially as she had 5 opponents and outspent the others more than 10 to one.  The key battle was Zimmer’s seat. See yesterday's LAT: "Deasy's supporters regard Zimmer as a swing vote."http://shar.es/jQZeW. Now they’re trying to change their spin for the media.   They must think we are all idiots. ---Leonie Haimson

“This election, with its shockingly outsized spending has revealed a hidden agenda, as old as the hills. With massive institutions and systems is embedded the opportunity for equally massive personal gain. Prerequisite is private control, wrenched from what was formerly public, democratic governance. Couching this banality of greed in educational ideology has been an effective strategy, but tonight’s results suggest a whisper of increasing awareness and resistance to uncontrolled and