It's Through the Looking Glass Time

when it comes to nonstop propaganda telling us privatization and charters, which would create segregation based on class and race, are now civil rights issues because the person in charge of the Department of Education is "concerned" about college preparation and a host of other bullshit issues.

As Ohanian notes, Ali is a Broadie:

Russlynn Ali: The Broad Foundation moves to the White House. Selected by Pres. Barack Obama as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Ali was previously founding director Education Trust West. Before that Ali, an attorney, was employed by The Children’s Defense Fund and before that as assistant director of policy and research at the Broad Foundation, for which she was also on loan as chief of staff to the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education. She has served on the Review Board for The Broad Prize for Urban Education. She was a fellow of the Aspen Institute's New Schools Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Fellowship.

Note her definition of "compassionate" civil rights.

Notable Remark: "Ready for work and ready for college mean the same thing."
San Diego Union, Feb. 11, 2004

Notable Remark: "We've made algebra a graduation requirement, but if we waive it away, we're waiving away good policy."— USA Today, Aug. 12, 2004

Notable Remark: [Denying students who fail the exit test the right to graduate with their peers] is the truly compassionate path. An alternative to the exit exam ends up being a way out, an escape valve to give adults a free pass when it comes to educating high school students. – San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 7, 2006