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solidaridad: Roles and responsibilities of public officials?

solidaridad: Roles and responsibilities of public officials?

Roles and responsibilities of public officials?

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene
The foppish millionaire from Benedict Canyon, school privatization pusher and poverty pimp Ben Austin
Recently, the agents of school privatization have been exposed for their criminal behavior and utter disregard towards the public at large in pursuit of market share and profitability. Their response? On rare occasions they recused themselves from votes or lobbying when the policies that dumped ever more money into their charter school colleagues pockets looked too obvious.


Gloria Romero, Ted Mitchell, and Ben Austin recused themselves as spectacle only, they're master manipulators. It's no secret that their tenures as State Senator in Romero's case and the SBE in Mitchel and Austin's case consisted of boosting lucrative charter market share and

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Remainders: Jeffries defends his relationship with DFER | GothamSchools

Remainders: Jeffries defends his relationship with DFER | GothamSchools

Remainders: Jeffries defends his relationship with DFER

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  • After a report that DFER supports Hakeem Jeffries, Jeffries gets slightly defensive. (PolitickerNY)
  • Previously, Jeffries has indeed criticized the Bloomberg administration on education. (GS, GS)
  • The ideologies of teacher groups make it hard to know what teachers really want. (Jeff Henig)
  • A new documentary shows how teaching became an esteemed profession in Finland. (Salon)
  • Turnover is high among charter school teachers in Los Angeles, a study finds. (LA Times)
  • Chicago Public Schools and Groupon partner to help donate school supplies. (Catalyst)
  • Putting the teacher layoff wave in perspective: “it could have been far worse.” (Quick and the Ed)
  • A new radio series reminds that roughly one million students drop out of school every year. (NPR)
  • Another legal challenge urges co-located charter schools to pay rent. (CityRoom, GS)
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