Mayoral control of schools? Consider Kevin Johnson.
K.J. with pals Arne Duncan and Arnold Schwarzenegger at a 2009 rally in Sacramento. Photo via AP
The rising star, it seems, set up a fake government—and some people are starting to notice.If any city is still contemplating turning their schools over to mayoral one-man rule, this portrait of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson should provide the cure.
Dave McKenna writes in Deadspin about K.J.'s attempt to set up "a fake government".
According to McKenna, the mayor is replacing civil servants with cronies funded by the Wal-Mart empire and tasked with "the twin purposes of working to abolish public Schooling in the Ownership Society: Mayoral control of schools? Consider Kevin Johnson.:
