Perdido Street School: Joel Klein Diverts Attention From Disappointing News Corp Education Division Debut With Education Speech

Perdido Street School: Joel Klein Diverts Attention From Disappointing News Corp Education Division Debut With Education Speech:

Joel Klein Diverts Attention From Disappointing News Corp Education Division Debut With Education Speech

cording to Gotham Schools, former NYC Schools Chancellor and current News Corporation executive Joel Klein gave a speech defending Bloomberg's education policies and attacking mayoral candidates who aren't full  

Not mentioned in the Gotham Schools story is that yesterday was the debut of the "new" News Corporation, with Joel Klein at the helm of the for-profit education technology division that is now paired with the newspapers and the publishing house, Harper Collins.

The much more profitable entertainment business in the old News Corporation has been spun off into a company known as 21st Century Fox.

Here is how Reuters reported on that story:

(Reuters) - Wall Street rewarded Rupert Murdoch's move to create a separate entertainment company, giving 21st Century Fox one of the richest valuations in the media sector on its first day of trading.

Investors had waited for Murdoch to split News Corp, giving its cable, movie and equity stakes in pay-TV assets their own spotlight away from the

NYC Parents Union/DC 37 Local 372 Take On Anthony Weiner

Daily Politics has posted two different stories in the last 24 hours detailing how the NYC Parents Union and DC Council Local 372 have launched two separate attack sites against mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (here and here.)Here's why:District Council 37's Local 372 has launched a pre-primary broadside against the ex-congressman and mayoral hopeful, bannering two photos from his 2011 sexting sc

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