Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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Joel Klein is stepping down as NYC Chancellor of schools after 8 years.
He will be replaced by incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black.
http://www.hearst.com/about-hearst/corporate-cathie-black.php
The New York Times
Tue, November 09, 2010 -- 3:56 PM ET
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Cathie Black, Publishing Executive, to Replace Joel I. Klein as New York City Schools Chancellor
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein is resigning and leaving city government and will be replaced by Cathie Black, the former publisher of USA Today and chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced this afternoon. Mr. Klein, in turn, will become the executive vice president of the News Corporation.
The mayor called Ms. Black "a superstar manager" and added, "There's no one who knows more about the skills our children will need to succeed in the 21st-century economy."
[{ but does this lady have even the slightest clue about how children learn or what teaching is really about?}] {The good news is she is likely not worse than MGJ}
The mayor lauded Mr. Klein for taking a "dysfunctional" system and turning it into "one that the Obama administration has hailed as a national model."
Read More HERE
And this line from the NYT story should get tongues wagging among our local Ed Privitization watchers.
"Mr. Klein, 64, said his job at News Corporation would be to develop “strategy to put them in the education marketplace.”
Lines of Influence
You can check the Broad and Gates infiltration via their own websites and other sources, such as:
faces of school reform
and:
http://techrights.org/2010/06/07/gates-family-us-franchises/
and:
Gates and DOE
And it is time we did another one, this time focusing on business interference in education...
This is cronyism... and more than that - its the final push to corporatise everything in this country...
Education and Social Security were the last quasi-public institutions left that had been roped off from capitalists...
Education has fallen to the vultures and social security will be next...
Oligarchy here we are...