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Kate James |
A week ago
I gave the example of Bruce Reed, the assistant to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, being named president of the Broad Foundation, to illustrate the easy movement between government, corporate reform and power philanthropy. Another earlier example would be
Joel Klein's transition from N.Y.C. schools chancellor to a power position within Rupert Murdoch's publishing empire.
This is a hallmark of current corporate-style school reform. It's similar in many ways, to the movement between government and the war industry, usually referred to as the military/industrial complex.
The latest example of the ed/corporate complex is PR exec Kate James, who is