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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Schools Matter: Ask Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre for His "research and experience" to Support Corporate School Reform Costs

Schools Matter: Ask Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre for His "research and experience" to Support Corporate School Reform Costs:


Ask Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre for His "research and experience" to Support Corporate School Reform Costs

While the local corporate media of Knoxville continues to print any kind of unsubstantiated charges or rumors against teachers, all the while ignoring the grassroots movement emerging against the corporate education reform schools tide from Eli Broad disciple, Supt. Jim McIntyre, the other local media outlets have picked up the slack with detailed stories about the growing pushback against McIntyre's unexplained 35 million dollar increase in the Knoxville Schools Budget.

The Knoxville Focus (This Week's Issue in pdf), for instance,  has more than one story this week critical of McIntyre and the Business Roundtable's edu-plan.  Word has it that the articles are so pointed that McIntyre has sent around a squad to collect all the