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California: Wall St Profiteers and Waltons Back Tuck; by Diane Ravitch

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The leading advocates for privatization are funding Marshall Tuck's campaign for State Superintendent of Education in California. If you want to get rid of public schools, Tuck's the guy. If you want to improve public education, vote for Tom Torkakson. Tuck funders: the $4.7 million collected so far comes instead from sources that support school vouchers, privatization of public pension systems and using disruptive business tactics to overhaul public schools.Major funders include:$500,000 from Carrie Walton Penner, whose family made its fortune running anti-union, low-wage paying Wal-Mart. $300,000 from John D. Arnold, a former Enron trader and funder of efforts to persuade governments to cut public employee pensions. $1 million from corporate CEO Eli Broad who believes 'investing in disruptive force brings change...Continual reorganizations, firings of staff,to create chaos or 'churn'

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have additional Master' Degrees in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side Middle School, which (more...)

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