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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Joel Klein and Condoleezza Rice Assess Needs of Public Education From The "National Security" Perspective

Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org:

Former NYC DOE Chief Executive Officer Joel Klein and Former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice Assess Needs of Public Education From The "National Security" Perspective
From the desk of Betsy Combier: It is fascinating how our government pays people to write about successes that the global community knows are actually failures. I wrote an article about "Education Policy Becomes A Matter of National Security" in 2004, before I found out that Joel Klein took Vincent Foster's office after Foster's death, and became the front man for NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's destruction of the New York City public school system. Now we know what Klein and Rice are going to say - that their actions were all taken in good faith as part of the US Government's public policy mandate, but they could not do all that they wanted to do because citizen activists, like me and thousands of others, hindered their progress. The solution? Keep protesters out of the way, take the "public" out of government and education. I dont support this, ahead of the release of the report. Who put these two there in the first place?
           
   Former New York City Schools Chancellor, Joel Klein, and Secretary of State under George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice   
Here is my 2004 article:

Education Policy Becomes a Matter of National Security

Also read my article on Joel Klein violating Education Law 2590-h because the law mandates that the NYC Chancellor have a contract, and he never had one. He also was