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After 18 months, Klein outlines plan for NewsCorp’s ed division | GothamSchools

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After 18 months, Klein outlines plan for NewsCorp’s ed division

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The day Joel Klein resigned as New York City schools chancellor in November 2010, he said he would be joining Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation “to put [the company] in the burgeoning and dynamic education marketplace.”
But after quickly acquiring people and companies, Klein decamped for a year to lead NewsCorp’s internal handling of its phone-hacking scandal. Just what, if anything, was happening behind the education division’s doors remained far out of public view.
That changed today. A month after Klein returned to the division fulltime, NewsCorp announced in a press