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Anti-public school "reformers" are on the ropes, but when there is money involved, I seriously doubt they will be stopped from peddling their lies.
Including the likes of ignoramus Steven Brill.
There are powerful neoliberal forces that are behind the privatization push, and they are international in scope.
Just because charters and regular private schools aren't better than public schools doesn't mean anything to the privatizers.
The "common good" must be replaced with "profit."
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This is typical of what teachers all over the country go through, but it is largely hidden from the public.
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Once again Obama sells the country down the river in order to help the banksters:
t is a sellout deal that, in return for a pittance of compensation by banks to ripped-off mortgage holders, would grant the banks blanket immunity from any prosecution. That is intended to short-circuit investigations by a score of aggressive state officials, inquiries that offer the public a last best hope to get to the bottom of the housing scandal that has cost US homeowners $6.6 trillion in home equity in the past five years and left 14.6 million Americans owing more than their homes are worth.
The $20 billion or so that the banks would pony up is chump change to them compared with the trillions that the Fed and other public agencies spent to bail them out. The banks were given direct cash subsidies, virtually zero-interest loans, and the Fed took $2 trillion in bad paper off their hands while the banks exacerbated the banking crisis they had created through additional shady practices, including fraudulent mortgage foreclosures.
Yet the administration has rushed to the aid of the banks once again and is attempting to intimidate the few state attorneys general who have the gumption to protect the public interest they are sworn to serve. As Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times reported:
Obama is a crooked son of a bitch beholden to crooks.
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