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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Corporate reformers and union haters target Zimmer in L.A. board race

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Corporate reformers and union haters target Zimmer in L.A. board race:


Corporate reformers and union haters target Zimmer in L.A. board race

 

I have done several posts on various local school board elections which recently have become targets for corporate reform types bent on district takeovers. Their aim is to gain control of hundreds of school district budgets and shift money away from neighborhood public schools and into the pockets of private charter school operators.

In October, I referred to a piece  in The Nation which asked