Schooling in the Ownership Society: Look who's running the Broad Foundation

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Look who's running the Broad Foundation:

Look who's running the Broad Foundation

Bruce Reed

One of the characteristics of the Ownership Society is the fluid movement of key personnel back and forth between government and corporations. Carry this over into the world of ed reform and what's been called the education/industrial complex and you find similar movement between government, and power philanthropy.

The latest example has Bruce Reed, assistant to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, being named president of the Broad Foundation, one of the big 3 in power philanthropy, along with Gates and Walton. According to a Broad Foundation release:

As the foundation's first president, Reed, 53, will oversee the activities and investments of The Broad Foundation's work to improve