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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Town says, "frack you" to Anschutz

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Town says, "frack you" to Anschutz:

Town says, "frack you" to Anschutz


Phillip Anschutz
, bankrolled the anti-public school propaganda film, Waiting for Superman. Now he's financing another film glorifying the so called, "parent trigger", a law which gives a group of parents the power to fire all their school's teachers and hand it over to a private management company. 20th Century Fox is preparing a September release for “Won’t Back Down” starring Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Anschutz is a far right-wing, evangelical billionaire who inherited his fortune from his father's oil business. He is