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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Schools Matter: Duncan Supports Snyder's Privatization Plan for Michigan Schools

Schools Matter: Duncan Supports Snyder's Privatization Plan for Michigan Schools

Duncan Supports Snyder's Privatization Plan for Michigan Schools

Dreamed up by the lawyers to the Billionaire Boys' Club, Gov. Rick Snyder's infamous Public Act 4 grants the Governor or his appointed "emergency" managers "power to fire local officials, cancel contracts, privatize municipal services, and even dissolve whole towns."

Yesterday Snyder applied his new powers to take over, charterize, and further segregate Detroit's poorest schools, and Arne Duncan was on the satellite hookup offering his full support for Snyder's bold action, which is being imposed through the Governor's latest emergency lackey, Roy Roberts, former GM exec trained by the same stooges at Harvard who provide instruction at Eli Broad's corporate training camp for urban superintendents just down the street.

From an excellent piece at HuffPo by Joy Resmovits:
The plan mirrors similar efforts in New Orleans and Tennessee that target the lowest-performing