Latest News and Comment from Education

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Black Agenda Report: The Looting of Oakland’s Public Schools by Broadies | Diane Ravitch's blog

Black Agenda Report: The Looting of Oakland’s Public Schools by Broadies | Diane Ravitch's blog

Black Agenda Report: The Looting of Oakland’s Public Schools by Broadies


This is an astonishing report about the destruction and privatization of public schools in Oakland, California, and the billionaires who facilitated the looting of that city. The article by Eugene Stovall appeared in “Black Agenda Report.” The audacity of this attack on public education is astonishing. The mechanism for the destroyers were graduates of the Broad Academy, known as Broadies. Since billionaire Eli Broad gave Yale University $100 million to take charge of his program, someone should warn Yale about its record.
Read it all. It will take your breath away.

Stovall writes:
Eli Broad (rhymes with “toad”) conconcted a scheme to privatize Oakland’s public schools and produce a revenue stream for his billionaire cronies.
Operating unethically and illegally, Broad managers used their training to cripple and plunder Oakland’s schools.”
Eli Broad is a liberal Democrat. He opposes Trump’s Muslim ban, immigration policies and withdrawal from the climate change treaty. In fact, like Democratic billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Blloomberg, Broad opposes CONTINUE READING: Black Agenda Report: The Looting of Oakland’s Public Schools by Broadies | Diane Ravitch's blog