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(OpEdNews Contributing Editor since October 2006) Inner city schoolteacher from New York, mostly covering media manipulation. I put election/finance reform ahead of all issues but also advocate for fiscal conservatism, ethics in journalism and curbing overpopulation. I enjoy open debate, history, the arts and hope to adopt a third child. Gustav Wynn is a pseudonym, but you knew that.
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Friday, August 5, 2016MEDIA MANIPULATION: DNC leaks reveal NY Times, MSNBC helped sabotage Sanders More leaked DNC emails show how party officials manipulated the NY Times to alter reporting on the Hillary Victory Fund, a 33-state fundraising partnership between the DNC and the Hillary campaign. Other evidence suggests MSNBC revised reporting to collude against the Sanders campaign even as the DNC claimed to be neutral. 
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Sunday, April 17, 2016MEET HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN CHAIR: "Moneyman" John Podesta and his Revolving Door Hillary vowed recently to end the revolving door, but her campaign chairman John Podesta and his think tank Center for American Progress is a prime example. But Podesta also is one of DC's biggest PAC bundlers, and his family is being enriched by major lobbying contracts with the biggest national and international mega-corporations including fossil fuel producers and including a Panama Papers-related bank from Russia. 
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Sunday, March 20, 2016Should Bernie Pay Off Superdelegates Like Hillary? Primary voters may be shocked to learn how the "democratic" process actually works, doing things they say are wrong. Hillary and the DNC are cruising to victory, but are silencing the voices of voters who have chosen Bernie loud and clear. How is this possible? It's easy - arcane party rules, including superdelegates and pay-for-play effectively gerrymander the outcomes long before the first votes are cast. 
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Sunday, July 12, 2015NY Teachers Seek Answers From New Education Commissioner Hired amidst a whirlwind of controversy and corruption in Albany, New York's new top educator replaces a Commissioner long accused of catering to the billionaire class, instituting Common Core and invalid evaluations designed to blame teachers for problems unique to low-income urban environments. For her first week, the activist teacher group NYBATs released an open letter asking Commissioner Elia to respond to the evidence. 
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Saturday, February 7, 2015EVALUATING THE EVALUATIONS: How Can Math or English Tests Be Used For All Teachers? In September 2013, New York City began basing teacher evaluations on Common Core test results, but neglected to create tests in subjects other than Math or English Language Arts. Instead, they simply assigned test scores in these subjects to everybody. Over a year later, we find teachers in danger of being fired, and inner city schools seeing teachers flee, knowing that low scores are linked to high poverty in the community. |
