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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: NY Ed Commish: King of the Hypocrites

Jersey Jazzman: NY Ed Commish: King of the Hypocrites:


NY Ed Commish: King of the Hypocrites

Is there a bigger reformy hypocrite than New York's Commissioner of Education, John King? I doubt it:
The Gates Foundation spent $100 million along with the Carnegie Corporation to create a massive database consisting of confidential information about students. The database will be created by Rupert Murdoch’s subsidiary Wireless Generation. It will go onto a “cloud” managed by amazon.com.
Several states and districts have agreed to turn over their student data. Last year, the U.S. Department of Education quietly changed the FERPA regulations so that the data