Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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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...