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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Broad Foundation’splan to expand influence in school reform - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Broad Foundation’splan to expand influence in school reform - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


Broad Foundation’splan to expand influence in school reform

This was written by Ken Libby and Stan Karp. Libby is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Karp is director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Centerand an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine.
By Ken Libby and Stan Karp
The Broad Foundation wants to step on the gas.
The California-based foundation, built on the housing and insurance empire of billionaire Eli Broad, has made “transforming K-12 urban public education” a major priority. Its training and placement of top administrators in urban districts across the country and support for 

The Broad Foundation memo