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Middle Class Children and the Hostage Takers in Corporate Education Reform | Reclaim Reform

Middle Class Children and the Hostage Takers in Corporate Education Reform | Reclaim Reform:

Middle Class Children and the Hostage Takers in Corporate Education Reform

Your children are the targets for Corporate Education Reform hostage takers. This is no exaggeration or hype. Middle class children in middle class areas.“No, a generation of youngsters is being held instead by pinstriped corporate executives, buttoned-down foundation officers and the local school board officials those aristocrats buy and sell.”
High stakes testing, teacher firing, sequestration, school closings, government shutdown, corporate education reform and the profiteering of vulture capitalist philanthropists. All in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Hostages
David Sirota explains how the vulture philanthropists actually work.
“This smooth-talking team of bandits is armed with billions of dollars of “charitable” – and therefore tax-subsidized – cash from both brand-name corporate behemoths and individual plutocrats like Microsoft’s