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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ed Notes Online: Charter Shill and Slimeball Michael Benjamin Joins Corporate attack on Leonie Haimson As People Rise to Her Defense

Ed Notes Online: Charter Shill and Slimeball Michael Benjamin Joins Corporate attack on Leonie Haimson As People Rise to Her Defense:


Charter Shill and Slimeball Michael Benjamin Joins Corporate attack on Leonie Haimson As People Rise to Her Defense

Leonie Has Pissed Off the gods of Corporate Education Reform
Celebrate Leonie's accomplishment by visiting her website
 http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/
What has Leonie done wrong? See below these supporters from Change the Stakes and Leonie's response for her crime of exposing their agenda. What can one say about former failed politician Benjamin? Just do a search for previous Ed Notes pieces on him. I still have some video somewhere of his shameful performance at the Bill Perkins charter school hearings years ago before he went slinking out of office with his tail between his legs.
Here are the Leonie supporters out in force:

Julie Cavanagh
From Michael Benjamin a charter and "choice" advocate. Note his attack on teachers too as he is trying to paint Leonie as being "hypocritical".... Those greedy high paid teachers with lavish benefits are the cause, or should be the target, of large class sizes- not of course budget cuts, co-locations, and millions wasted on data/testing/"accountability". Truly ridiculous op-ed... Of course not surprising given the author and the paper.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/an_advocate_hypocrite_fGukKLaYpNlBQKTmgco2jO

Carol Burris
I think it is very poorly written, grasping at anything to make her look bad. I think we can expect more attacks...too many people are speaking out against testing, inBloom the CCSS.

Fred Smith
Another attack on Leonie. He couldn't refute her one-woman fight to reverse the InBloom giveaway of private data, so he left that one out of his multi-count indictment Leonie's hypocrisy.

Loretta Prisco
The powers that be definitely know where the greatest threat to their powers is coming from--the person who consistently speaks bold truth to them. Discredit her they must. They never like to be challenged or forced to settle for only 99% of the pie. Using leonie to attack unions and ignoring the incredible work that she has done! Why do reporters go to her? Because she has the information, does her homework, and does represent the