I am sure it is way higher than that.
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It seems Amanda Knox's persecutors are in deep doo-doo:
Two Italian prosecutors in the overturned murder case against Amanda Knox, including chief prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, are accused of wasting the equivalent of $240,000 in public funds, when they commissioned a controversial video intending to show how the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher unfolded, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph._____
From last year is this long piece about the pernicious influence of the "billionaire boys' club." It seems Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools hasn't learned a thing from its Broad experience.
The idea that businessmen like Broad and Gates can invest their way to public power without public accountability - or experience as educators - worries some people.
"They know how to cut costs," said Fenwick English, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Education, who has labeled Broad as the top enemy of public education leadership in the U.S.
"But what they don't know is teaching and learning."
Diane Ravitch, an author and former assistant secretary of education, has labeled Broad, Gates and a handful of education philanthropists "the billionaire boys club." She argues that their control of the reform movement undermines democracy.
And that is the bottom line.
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Some good reasons why "common core standards" are a lousy idea.
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