Monday, November 5, 2012

Schools Matter: Corporate School Boarding Indy Style

Schools Matter: Corporate School Boarding Indy Style:


Corporate School Boarding Indy Style

Guest Post by Doug Martin, author and contributor at The Common Errant
Doug Martin is doing the heavy lifting in Indiana--the work our Fourth Estate seems to have been hired to ignore.  There is one very bright exception (shining much more so because so isolated in the journalistic sky): Karen Francisco who writes "The Learning Curve" at the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.


It happened in New Orleans, it happened in Denver, it happened in Florida with the Vice President's brother, and now the mega-rich are buying the Indianapolis Public School Board race, with many of the same hedge fund managers and the Walmart family tossing their dirty money into the ring. Local grassroots education activist John Harris Loflin, who authored a truly progressive plan for IPS that the media seldommentions, breaks the corporate funding down for us in an email sent out a few days ago, noting the following