Hemlock on the Rocks : Delaware's "Broad" View of Education....Chaos and Disruption Destabilize Schools and Communities, Making it Easier to Take Over ( Bwhahahahahaahah!)

Hemlock on the Rocks : Delaware's "Broad" View of Education....Chaos and Disruption Destabilize Schools and Communities, Making it Easier to Take Over ( Bwhahahahahaahah!):

Delaware's "Broad" View of Education....Chaos and Disruption Destabilize Schools and Communities, Making it Easier to Take Over ( Bwhahahahahaahah!)

Evil ? Worse than that! 

Eli Broad -- the CPA-trained-billionaire-businessman-turned-public-education-reformer -- informed Diane Ravitch, a distinguished education expert, about what needs to be done to education in America.  .

According to Ravitch, "We talked about school reform for an hour or more, and he told me that what was needed to fix the schools was not all that complicated: A tough manager surrounded by smart graduates of business schools and law schools."

According to Slate quoting Vanity Fair, Eli Broad boasted back in 2006 that he  

"plans to virtually take over the Delaware school system in 2007, pending approval from that state's legislature." He backed the winning slate of candidates for the local board of education in 1999 and helped hire the superintendent.

Eli Broad trains Superintendents.  Delaware's Christina School District has been the unfortunate beneficiary of his largess.  Joe Wise, followed by Lillian Lowery, followed by  Marcia Lyles, all are from Eli's School of Superintendencies....Dr. Joe Wise was selected as a Broad Fellow by Eli Broad Institute for School Boards (2005), was appointed to the Eli Broad Urban Superintendents Academy as a Fellow (2003), and serves on the Broad Academy's adjunct faculty and advisory committee.  Although Broad Superintendents come in highly qualified, they often leave disgracefully.  Joe Wise, may have been one of the first. Recently, across this nation many Broad Superintendents have been let go. All trained by the Broad Superintendents Academy: Maria Goodloe-Johnson (class of 2003) of the Seattle school district, LaVonne Sheffield (class of 2002) of the Rockford, Illinois school district, and Jean-Claude Brizard (class of 2008) of the Rochester New York school district. Brizard resigned to take the job as CEO of Chicago schools, but his superintendency in Rochester had been mired in controversy. Another Broad-trained Superintendent recently announced his resignation: Tom Brady (class of 2004) of Providence, Rhode Island, as well as these others from before: Arnold "Woody" Carter (class or 2002), formerly of the Capistrano Unified School District; Thandiwee Peebles,( class of 2002), formerly of the Minneapolis Public School District; and John Q. Porter (class of 2006), formerly of the Oklahoma City Public School District.

Ms. Lillian Lowery (class of 2004), Wise's replacement after supposedly cleaning up Joe Wise's disaster, was put in charge of all Delaware's schools, and now, is in charge of Maryland's. Broad's influence has touched every Delaware Student... and is about to touch all those of Maryland.

Our current head of Delaware's Department of Education, Mark Murphy, hails from a group NLNSfunded by Eli Broad

If this was a good thing, it would be awesome!!!  

But what if it is not?  So, what exactly is the Broad influence?

Here is one take. First of all, it is one of the three major influencers of education today across the United States of America.  Along with the Gates Foundation and the Walton's, it exerts a powerful influence, good or bad. By it's own admission, it calls itself a venture philanthropy, as in venture capitalist.  Meaning it invests in philanthropy expecting to yield a return on its investment.  As one random Hemlock on the Rocks : Delaware's "Broad" View of Education....Chaos and Disruption Destabilize Schools and Communities, Making it Easier to Take Over ( Bwhahahahahaahah!):