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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Rephorm on the Rocks | EduShyster

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Rephorm on the Rocks

How the rich cornered the market on great ideas to $ave our failing public schools
When we last checked in with our rich friends, they were flush with cash and aflurry with many excellent ideas for saving our failed and failing public schools. Now, with the stock market ascendant and corporate profits at an all time high, these generous benefactors are themselves rising to new heights of generosity and excellence. Today’s outstanding idea is brought to us (and to our failing schools) by the rich of New York City who have come up with an idea so bold, so transformative, so disruptive that we have no choice but to raise our glasses to them.
Reader: it is a great irony that even as the prospects of New York City’s schoolchildren plummet due to union stifling and excellence depletion, the value of the land on which their failed and failing schools sit continues to