Via the SPS webpage: The public is invited to attend or stream this forum for candidates for appointment to the District 2 and 4 School Board Director seats. All finalists will have the opportunity to share why they are interested in serving on the Seattle School Board and answer questions selected by the Board and Student Members. More information about the appointment process, including a timeline and candidate webpages, can be found on the appointment process web page . SPSTV Streaming: The meeting will be live streamed on SPSTV and broadcast on television on Comcast 26 (standard-def) and 319 (hi-def), Wave 26 (standard-def) and 695 (hi-def), and Century Link 8008 (standard-def) and 8508 (hi-def). The agenda reflects the above wording - the meeting will be two-and-a-half hours. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 27th at the Performing Arts Center at Lincoln High School, 4400 Interlake Avenue North from 6-8:30 pm. The Board's schedule reflects announcing
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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...