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Sunday, December 29, 2013

12-29-13 Schools Matter

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Haslam, Bush, WGU, and McGraw-Hill
In 2002 Stephen Metcalf documented the financially incestuous relationship between the Bush family and McGraw-Hill that resulted from a long-established familial system of mutual back-scratching and "cross-pollination and mutual admiration" between the the two fiefdoms.  Today that system of good ole boy corruption, cronyism, and corporate welfare continues in State Houses and governors'


Use of Value-Added Is "Parochial and Ineffectual"
Tennessee is the test site for every crackpot, over-the-top corporate thought disorder that is translatable into a ed industry scheme that fronts as education policy.  The state has TFA lawyer and the former Mr. Michelle Rhee, Kevin Huffman,  running the schools from Nashville as Commissioner, and earlier this year Huffman and Jeb Bush's Chiefs for Change, a front organization for laundering corpo


  
12-28-13 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter:  Schools Matter All WeekMike Pence's Secret Santasby Doug Martin As we enter an election year here in Indiana, it is time for all of us to start peering in on the campaign records of our beloved state politicians and the front groups that are their publically-secret Santas.  So here are a few of Gov. Mike Pence’s, and they are many of the same people and corporations who funded for